Max Peter Baumann
Max Peter Baumann (born January 15, 1944 in Altdorf , Canton Uri , Switzerland ) is a Swiss ethnomusicologist , music anthropologist and editor of the magazine world of music .
Career
Max Peter Baumann studied musicology, German and folklore at the University of Bern . He became a music folkore and musical folklorism work. An ethnomusicological study on the functional change of yodelling is doing his doctorate . From 1976 to 1982 he worked as an assistant professor at the Institute for Comparative Musicology at the Free University of Berlin. In 1982 he was appointed professor at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . Between 1985 and 1986 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, before he was director of the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin for ten years. Since 1997 he has been professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Bamberg again. From 2007 until his retirement in 2009, Baumann was Professor at the Institute for Music Research at the University of Würzburg. In 2017 he received the Honorary Ruth for his research .
research
Max Peter Baumann mainly dealt with the theory and methods of ethnomusicology (especially ethnomusicological field research ), with music in the age of globalization and the cultural anthropology of hearing.
Max Peter Baumann carried out numerous ethnomusicological field research in Ethiopia, Argentina, Bavaria, Bolivia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan, USA, South Korea and Switzerland.
Selected publications
- Musical folklore and musical folklorism. An ethnomusicological investigation into the functional change of yodelling . Winterthur 1976
- Function and symbol: On the ' Alphorn ' paradigm . In: Erich Stockmann (ed.): Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis 5. (Musikhistoriska Museets Skrifter 7, ed. Ernst Emsheimer ) Musikmuseet, Stockholm 1977, pp. 27-32
- Bibliography on ethnomusicological literature in Switzerland. With a contribution to the history, subject matter and problems of folk song research. Winterthur 1981
- As editor: Music of the Roma. Ethnicity, Identity and Multiculturalism. (The world of music, Volume 38) VWB-Verlag, Berlin 1996
- Klezmer music under the sign of globalization. In: Klezmer - hejmisch and hip. Music as a form of cultural expression in the course of time. Documentation for the exhibition, ed. from the city of Gelsenkirchen. Editor: Wiltrud Apfeld. Essen 2004, pp. 10–15
- Music in an intercultural context. (Intercultural Library, Vol. 118), Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 978-3-88309-310-9 .
- Klezmer music and klezmorim in the age of globalization. in: Max Peter Baumann, Tim Becker and Raphael Woebs (eds.): Music and culture in contemporary Jewish life. (Kulturwissenschaften Vol. 2) Berlin 2006, pp. 121–146
- World music - music of the world. In: Peter Wicke (ed.): Duden - Music: Textbook SII: Gymnasiale Oberstufe. Berlin, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, pp. 385-423, 426-447
- Music in the world. In: Peter Wicke (Ed.): Duden - Music, textbook SII: Gymnasiale Oberstufe, Berlin, Frankfurt a. M. 2006 pp. 32-37
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Peter Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://baumannbibliographie.blogspot.com (bibliography, discography, field research, music documentation)
- Website of the University of Würzburg about Max Peter Baumann
- Study materials from the Institute for Music Research at the University of Würzburg with contributions by Max Peter Baumann
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumann, Max Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss musicologist, ethnologist, editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdorf |