Lars-Christian Koch

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Lars-Christian Koch (* 1959 in Peine ) is a German ethnomusicologist and musicologist .

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After completing his MA in ethnology, Koch received his doctorate in musicology with his dissertation on the importance of Rasa teaching for contemporary North Indian art music, with a comparison with the affect theory of the 17th and 18th centuries at the University of Bonn . His habilitation at the University of Cologne took place in the subject of ethnomusicology with the work My Heart Sings - Die Lieder . Koch is an adjunct professor for ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne and honorary professor at the Berlin University of the Arts . Koch has been visiting professor at the Universities of Vienna and Chicago (University of Chicago).

Koch conducted ethnological research in India and South Korea for more than 30 years. His main research interests are the theory and practice of North Indian music, instrument studies with a special focus on instrument making, audiovisual media in cultural contexts, popular music and urban culture, musical interpretations in a historical context and musical archeology .

Since Viola König retired  at the end of 2017, Koch has been working as the acting director of the Ethnological Museum (Department of Ethnic Music, Media Technology and the Berlin Phonogram Archive), whose media department he had previously been in charge of for 15 years, and of the Asian Museum of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin. At the Ethnological Museum, Koch heads the research project on indexing and digitizing sound recordings of the Prussian Phonographic Commission 1915-1918 .

On March 19, 2018, Koch was elected by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, following a call for tenders, to head the collection of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, which was currently being set up, after the initially appointed ethnologist Inés de Castro , director of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart , refused. Koch will be responsible for the permanent exhibitions of the Museum Center in the Humboldt Forum in the center of the capital.

Koch is the editor of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE) for the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory .

honors and awards

In 2012, Koch and Susanne Ziegler received the Bruno Nettl Prize of the Society for Ethnomusicology for his “outstanding publication activities” .

Curated special exhibitions

  • 1996/1997: With skin and hair. The world of lute instruments . Linden Museum , Stuttgart
  • 2007: ABC of Tones (as part of the 2007 Science Year The Humanities. ABC of Mankind in the Ethnological Museum Berlin )
  • 2011: Exhibition in the Humboldt Box (MusikWeltKarte, sound installation, sound memory)
  • 2013: LAB rehearsal stage see music
  • 2014: LAB Probebühne Musik Hören
  • 2014: LAB Probebühne Making of ... Instrument making
  • 2014: Phonographed Sounds - Photographed Moments . Audio and video documents from German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I (in cooperation with the Museum of European Cultures )
  • 2018: [loud] - Hear the world , Humboldt-Box

Publications

  • The ethnic variants of "being sick". Concepts of illness and behavior in tribal cultures (Mundus series ethnology). Mundus, Bonn 1986, ISBN 978-3-926216-05-2 ; 2nd edition, Holos, Bonn 1988, ISBN 978-3-926216-05-2 .
  • On the importance of the Rasa teaching for contemporary North Indian art music, with a comparison with the affect teaching of the 17th and 18th centuries (Ravīndra Dhvani Volume 2). Holos, Bonn 1995, ISBN 978-3-86097-391-2 (also dissertation Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1993).
  • with Raimund Vogels: "With skin and hair": the world of lute instruments (book accompanying the special exhibition in the Linden Museum Stuttgart). Stuttgart, Linden Museum, State Museum of Ethnology 1996.
  • with Albrecht Wiedmann, Susanne Ziegler: The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: A treasury of sound recordings . (PDF) In: Acoustical science and technology , 25, Heft 4, 2004, pp. 227-231, doi: 10.1250 / ast.25.227 , ISSN  1346-3969
  • Ethnic music between reconstruction and forgetting , in: Musicology Post-War Culture Politics of the Past (Mannheimer Manieren Volume 4, 2017) , edited by Wolfgang Auhagen , Thomas Schipperges , Dörte Schmidt , Bernd Sponheuer , Olms, Hildesheim 2017, pp. 147–169.
  • Sitar and surbahar manufacturing the tradition of Kanailal & Brother, Kolkata (publication by the Ethnological Museum Berlin, Volume 80). Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin, Berlin 2011.
  • My heart sings. Rabindranath Tagore's songs between tradition and modernity (KlangKulturStudien, Volume 5). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-10800-5 (also habilitation thesis University of Cologne).
  • Images of sound: Erich M. von Hornbostel and the Berlin School , in: The Cambridge History of World Music (Part of The Cambridge History of Music ) , edited by Philip V. Bohlman , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, p. 475– 498
  • Mobility and cultural transfer in processes of music-cultural migrations between Europe and South Asia , in: Migration and Identity - Migration and Cultural Contacts in Music History (Analecta musicologica - publications by the music history department of the German Historical Institute in Rome, Volume 49) , edited by Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort and Silke Leopold , Bärenreiter, Kassel 2013, pp. 242–255.
  • with Ricardo Eichmann (ed.): Music archeology. Sounds of the past ( Archeology in Germany special issue 7). Konrad Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3007-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz News of March 19, 2018: elected director of the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art , accessed on March 22, 2018
  2. Der Tagesspiegel of March 19, 2018: Ethnologist Koch becomes director of the collections , by Nicola Kuhn , accessed on March 22, 2018
  3. Der Tagesspiegel of February 15, 2018: Inés de Castro's rejection of the Humboldt Forum. It would have been the right one , from Nicola Kuhn , accessed on March 22, 2018
  4. Bruno Nettl Prize on The Society of Ethnomusicology homepage , accessed on March 27, 2018