Martin Pfleiderer

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Martin Pfleiderer (* 1967 in Calw ) is a systematic musicologist and teaches the aesthetics and history of jazz and popular music as a university professor .

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Pfleiderer studied musicology , philosophy and sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1988 to 1993 ; Between 1991 and 1999 he also worked as a music journalist for the Frankfurter Rundschau and other daily newspapers, jazz thetics and radio, and as a recording manager for the NDR big band . As a musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone ) he played with Ekkehard Jost ( Weimar Ballads ), Burkhard Beins and Peter Niklas Wilson ( Yarbles ). In 1998 he received his doctorate from the University of Giessen with a thesis on the reception of African and Asian music in jazz of the 1960s and 1970s. From 1999 to 2005 he worked as a research assistant for systematic musicology at the musicological institute of the University of Hamburg , where he qualified as a professor on the importance of rhythm in popular music. After having represented the professorship for theory, aesthetics and history of popular music at the University of Paderborn in 2007/2008 , he was appointed to the newly established professorship for the history of jazz and popular music at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar in 2009; he is also the scientific director of the Lippmann + Rau music archive in Eisenach.

The focus of his research and teaching is music in its cultural and social contexts, the analysis of sound events , music as a performance , the mediality of music, the visuality of music, genre-specific aesthetics in jazz and pop music, and the history of popular music and jazz.

literature

  • Between exoticism and world music . On the reception of Asian and African music in jazz of the 60s and 70s (= publications on popular music research 4), Karben: Coda 1998
  • Helmut Rösing, Albrecht Schneider, Martin Pfleiderer (eds.): Musicology and popular music. Attempt to take stock (= Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft , Vol. 19), Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2002
  • Rhythm. Psychological, theoretical and stylistic aspects of popular music. Bielefeld 2006
  • Popular music and cultural memory. Historiography Archive Internet. Vienna, Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau 2011
  • M. Pfleiderer, Nils Grosch, Ralf von Appen (eds.) Popular Music (= Compendia of Music 14). Laaber: Laaber 2014
  • Ann-Christine Mecke, M. Pfleiderer, Bernhard Richter, Thomas Seedorf (eds.): Lexikon der Gesangsstimme (= Handbook of Singing, Vol. 3), Laaber: Laaber 2014
  • M. Pfleiderer, Klaus Frieler, Jakob Abeßer, Wolf-Georg Zaddach, Benjamin Burkhart (eds.) Inside the Jazzomat. New Perspectives for Jazz Research. Mainz: Schott Campus 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, May 26, 2014)
  2. ↑ The professor, the archive, the music: Martin Pfleiderer teaches the history of jazz and popular music in Weimar . Jazz newspaper 5/2009
  3. ^ Martin Pfleiderer: Jazz and Popular Music Studies. Concepts, questions, perspectives (inaugural lecture)
  4. ^ Bibliography Martin Pfleiderer
personal data
SURNAME Pfleiderer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Calw