Oliver Seibt

Oliver Seibt (* 1969 in Cologne ) is a German musicologist and music ethnologist .

Career

Oliver Seibt studied musicology with a focus on ethnomusicology, ethnology and Japanese studies at the University of Cologne . From 1998 to 2007 he worked as a freelancer at EMI Music Germany. During this time he worked from 2000 to 2008 as a research assistant in the ethnomusicology department at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne. He then worked for a year as an assistant in the cultural anthropology of music at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Bern, whereupon his doctorate at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media followed.

From 2009 to 2012 Seibt worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the cluster of excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University . As a co-founder, Oliver Seibt works as General Secretary of the German-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-DA-CH). This was followed by substitute professorships for ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne (2013), at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (2013–2015) and at the University of Vienna (2015–2016); He also taught at the universities of Maiduguri, Saarbrücken , Gießen , Bremen , Zurich , Utrecht and at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim.

Seibt's focus areas include everyday musicology, ethnography of transnational music flows, musicology and cultural theory, urban ethnomusicology and popular music in Japan. Although the latter point is part of modern music history and Japanese pop culture, Oliver Seibt takes an ethnological approach.

Publications (selection)

• The (musical) imaginarium of Konishi Yasuharu, or How to make Western music Japanese , in: Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project (SOAS Musicology), ed. By Reinhard Strohm. London and New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 157-176.
• J-Pop: Why popular music from Japan doesn't necessarily sound Japanese , in: Global Pop , ed. By Claus Leggewie and Erik Meyer. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 307-314.
• Expeditions of desire , in: Seismographic sounds - Visions of a new world , ed. By Thomas Burkhalter, Theresa Beyer and Hannes Liechti. Bern: Norient, 2016, pp. 321-326.
• Commitment to (a post-interpretative) ethnomusicology, contribution to the “Discussion: What Discipline?” Positions on what once began as comparative musicology , in: Die Musikforschung , 67 (4), 2014, pp. 388-393.
• Asagi's voice: Learning how to desire with Japanese visual-kei , in: Vocal music and contemporary identities: Unlimited voices in East Asia and the West , ed. By Christian Utz and Frederick Lau. New York and London. Routledge, 2012, pp. 249-267.

Web links

• Portrait on the homepage of the University of Amsterdam
• Portrait on the homepage of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main