Rebecca Grotjahn

Rebecca Grotjahn (* 1961) is a German musicologist and professor at the University of Paderborn .

Career

Grotjahn first studied music and German to become a teacher, then singing, as well as musicology and music education. In 1997 she received her doctorate at the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media with a study on symphonics in the 19th century, and in 2004 she completed her habilitation at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

From 1988 to 1997 she taught in Hanover, then at the music academies in Essen and Düsseldorf . From 2001 to 2004 she worked on the DFG research project "Singers Pictures" at the Cologne University of Music . In 2005 she was a scholarship holder of the Sophie Drinker Institute for Musicological Women and Gender Studies in Bremen and a private lecturer in Oldenburg. In 2006 she became professor for musicology with a focus on gender research - music by women at the musicological seminar of the University of Paderborn and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold , from 2006 she was the managing director of the seminar for ten years. Since 2016 she has been leading the DFG research project "Technologies of Singing" (together with Malte Kob and Karin Martensen).

The main research areas of Rebecca Grotjahn are the history of singing, musicological gender research, everyday musical history, material and digital music culture, the history of the song, Clara and Robert Schumann, Johann Sebastian Bach. She is the editor of "Contributions to the Cultural History of Music" and co-editor of the "Compendia Music".

Grotjahn is a member of the advisory boards of the Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW and of the yearbook Music and Gender, which she co-founded . From 2002 to 2013 she was the spokesperson for the section on women's and gender studies in the Society for Music Research.

Award

• 2009 Prize for special teaching from the University of Paderborn.

Fonts

Books (selection)

(Ed.) The gender of musical things, ed. by Rebecca Grotjahn, Sarah Schauberger, Johanna Imm and Nina Jaeschke, Hildesheim 2018 (= Yearbook Music and Gender 11).

(Ed.) Diva - The staging of the superhuman woman. Interdisciplinary studies on a cultural phenomenon of the 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Rebecca Grotjahn, Dörte Schmidt and Thomas Seedorf, Schliengen: Edition Argus 2011 (Forum Musikwissenschaft, vol. 7).

(Ed.) Music and Gender , ed. by Rebecca Grotjahn and Sabine Vogt with the collaboration of Sarah Schauberger, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag 2010 (Kompendien Musik, Vol. 5)

(Ed.) Felsensprengerin, bridge builder, trailblazer: the composer Ethel Smyth. Rock Blaster, Bridge Builder, Road Paver: The Composer Ethel Smyth, ed. by Cornelia Bartsch, Rebecca Grotjahn and Melanie Unseld, Munich: Allitera 2010 (Contributions to the Cultural History of Music, Vol. 2).

Articles (selection)

“Playing at Refinement. A Musicological Approach to Music, Gender and Class Around 1900 ", in: German History 30 (2012), pp. 395-411.

“Vocal owner and singer actor. The staging of singing on the music theater stage ”, in: Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 14 (2011), pp. 1–25 http://janacek.unibe.ch/european-musicology2/wp-content/uploads/2017/09 /20111.pdf .

“'The singing voices are divided into two broad categories by their nature.' The construction of the vocal gender as a historical process”, in: Puppen, Whores, Robots. Body of Modernity in Music 1900–1930, ed. by Sabine Meine and Katharina Hottmann, Schliengen: Edition Argus 2005, pp. 34–57.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rebecca Grotjahn: The symphony in the German cultural area 1850 to 1875. A contribution to the history of the genre and institutions (music and musical perception in the 19th century, edited by Detlef Altenburg, vol. 8) . studio., Sinzig 1998, ISBN 3-89564-051-4 .
2. ^ NN: Vita of Rebecca Grotjahn. In: Website of the University of Paderborn. Retrieved September 24, 2018 . 
3. ^ NN: Technologies of Singing. In: Website of the Detmold University of Music. Retrieved September 24, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Rebecca Grotjahn (ed.): Contributions to the cultural history of music . 11 volumes. Allitera, Munich.
5. ^ Detlef Altenburg, Wolfgang Auhagen, Gabriele Buschmeier , Rebecca Grotjahn and Dörte Schmidt (eds.): Kompendien Musik . 7 volumes. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber.
6. ↑ Section Women and Gender Studies in the Society for Music Research and Research Center Music and Gender (Ed.): Yearbook Music and Gender . 10 volumes. Olms, Hildesheim.
7. ↑ NN: Women and Gender Studies. In: Website of the section on women's and gender studies in the Society for Music Research. Retrieved September 24, 2018 . 

Web links

• Rebecca Grotjahn on the website of the University of Paderborn
• Rebecca Grotjahn [1] on the website of the Women's and Gender Research Network NRW