Michael Custodis

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Michael Custodis (* 1973 in Cologne ) is a German musicologist , sociologist and university professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Professional career

Custodis studied musicology, sociology, comparative political science, education and film studies at the University of Mainz . He then moved to the University of Bergen (Norway) and finally to Albrecht Riethmüller at the Free University in Berlin . He obtained his diploma in sociology, received his doctorate in musicology and also completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin.

His main focus areas are music sociology and music aesthetics; Music and politics as well as the interactions between "popular" and "classical" music and finally music in literature.

Publications

author

  • The social isolation of the new music. On Cologne's musical life after 1945 (= Archive for Musicology . Supplement 54), Stuttgart 2004.
  • Music in the prism of society. Valuations in literary and aesthetic texts. Munster 2009.
  • Classical music today. A search for clues in rock music. Bielefeld 2009.
  • with Friedrich Geiger: Networks of Denazification. Continuities in German musical life using the example of Werner Egk, Hilde and Heinrich Strobel (= Münster writings on contemporary music. 1). Münster u. a. 2013.

editor

  • with Friedrich Geiger, Michael Lüthy, Sabine Slanina: artist critic . On the relationship between production and criticism in the visual arts and music. Saarbrücken 2007.
  • with Insa Bernds, Frank Hentschel: Albrecht Riethmüller, Approaching Music - Studies and Essays. Stuttgart 2007.
  • with Albrecht Riethmüller : Georg Kreisler - Grenzgänger. Seven articles with an afterword by Georg Kreisler. Freiburg i.Br. 2009.
  • Success - delimitation - experience. Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Arts. Berlin 2010.
  • Traditions, coalitions, visions. Wolfgang Steinecke and the international summer courses in Darmstadt. International Music Institute Darmstadt, Saarbrücken 2010.
  • Herman-Walther Frey : Ministerialrat, scientist, networker. NS university policy and the consequences (= Münster writings on contemporary music. 2). Münster u. a. 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Custodis, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne