Ursula Hemetek

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Ursula Hemetek (* 1956 in Lower Austria ) is an Austrian music ethnologist . She is an associate professor at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Career

Hemetek studied comparative musicology at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna , where in 1987 she worked with Franz Födermayr on the subject of wedding songs from the Burgenland-Croatian community of Stinatz for Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In 1987, the then director of the institute, Walter Deutsch , brought her to the institute for folk music research at the University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2001 she completed her habilitation in musicology (ethnomusicology) at the University of Vienna on the music of the ethnic and religious minorities in Austria. Since 2011 she has been director of the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 2013 she has been Deputy Chairwoman of the Senate of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has been Secretary General of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) since 2017.

Act

Ursula Hemetek's main research area is the music of minorities. She is significantly involved in establishing the subject in the international ethnomusicological discourse . She was heavily involved in the founding of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) Study Group “Music and Minorities”, which she chaired until she took over the ICTM General Secretariat in 2017.

Hemetek conducts research on the music of minorities in Austria, in particular the Roma , the Burgenland Croats and the Bosnians in Vienna. She also sets this focus in her teaching. She created the minority focus at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology and teaches on her subject at several Austrian universities. Hemetek's work also has a socio-political dimension. Her research corresponds to an approach of empowering marginalized groups. She is involved in cultural and public relations work in the intercultural area, and for many years she was the chairwoman of the “Initiative Minorities”.

Since 2019 she has headed the "Music and Minorities Research Center", which she founded with the funds of the Wittgenstein Prize

Awards

In 2018, she and the computer scientist and mathematician Herbert Edelsbrunner were awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , each worth 1.4 million euros .

selected Writings

  • Sing Croatian, speak German. Music as a survival strategy for ethnic minorities. In: Werner Holzer, Rainer Münz (Ed.): Trend reversal? Language and ethnicity in Burgenland. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85165-051-4 , pp. 177-191.
  • with Emil Lubej (ed.): Echo of diversity: Traditional music by minorities / ethnic groups. = Echoes of diversity. Traditional music of ethnic groups / minorities. (= Writings on folk music, 16). Böhlau, Vienna 1997.
  • Šunen, šunen, Romalen. (Listen, Listen, Roma): Reception of Lovari Songs - A Cultural Misunderstanding? In: The World of Music. 39 (2) 1997, pp. 97-110.
  • with Sofija Bajrektarević: Bosnian music in Austria. Sounds of threatened harmony. (= Sound reading, 1). Institute for Folk Music Research, Vienna 2000.
  • Mosaic of sounds. Music of the ethnic and religious minorities in Austria. (= Writings on folk music volume 20). Habilitation thesis, Böhlau. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001.
  • with Anna Czekanowska, Gerda Lechleitner and others: Manifold identities. Studies on Music and Minorities; [proceedings of the 2nd meeting of the Study Group Music and Minorities of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Lublin, Poland, 2002]. 1st edition. Cambridge Scholars Press, Amersham 2004, ISBN 1-904303-37-4 .
  • The “own” and the “foreign” based on the minority focus of the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology. In: Gerd Grupe (Ed.): Ethnic music and folk music research in Austria: The 'foreign' and the 'own'? (= Anthology of music anthologies 20). Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2005, pp. 117-135.
  • Applied Ethnomusicology in the Process of the Political Recognition of a Minority: A Case Study of the Austrian Roma. In: 2006 Yearbook for Traditional Music. Vol. 38, pp. 35-57.
  • as editor: The other hymn. Minority votes from Austria; a project of the minorities initiative. Publishing house d. Austrian Dialect Authors Inst. For Regional Languages ​​u. Cultures - IDI Austria (Ö! -Box, 1), Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-900357-10-2 .
  • with Adelaida Reyes (Ed.): Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area: Explorations in Urban Ethnomusicology. (= sound reading 4). Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, Vienna 2007.
  • Unexpected Musical Worlds of Vienna: Immigration and Music. In: Maria de Sao Jose Corte-Real (ed.): Migracoes. Journal of the Portugueses Immigration Observatory special issue Music and Migration. Lisbon, October 7, 2010, pp. 115-138.
  • The Music of Minorities in Austria: Conflict and Intercultural Strategies. In: Klisala Harrison, Elisabeth Mackinlay, Svanibor Pettan (eds.): Applied Ethnomusicology: Historical and Contemporary Approaches. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 182-199.
  • The role of the bride in minority weddings. Gender aspects in ethnomusicology. In: Andrea Ellmeier, Doris Ingrisch, Claudia Wlakensteiner-Preschl (Ed.): Screenings. Knowledge and gender in music, theater, film. (= mdw Gender Knowledge, Volume 1). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2010, pp. 59–90.
  • Bi-musicality and intercultural dialogue. Assessment of the “bi-musical” potential of students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. A report. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works. Volume 60, 2011, pp. 188-199.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Hemetek: Wedding songs from Stinatz. On the songs of a Croatian community in Burgenland. Dissertation, Vienna 1987.
  2. ↑ Ursula Hemetek: Mosaic of Sounds. Music of the ethnic and religious minorities in Austria. Habilitation thesis. (= Writings on folk music, 20). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2001.
  3. ↑ MMRC - Music and Minorities Research Center . Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ Wittgenstein Prizes 2018 to the computer scientist and mathematician Herbert Edelsbrunner and to the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek . OTS notification dated June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hemetek, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnomusicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Austria