Community music with 1,000 people

Still buzzing from the energy of nearly 1,000 people coming together for our huge open singing event in the park last week, powered by the city municipality 🥲 We closed the evening with traditional St. Martin songs as the lanterns lit up the twilight… 🏮 Earlier that same day, I had the privilege of givingContinue reading “Community music with 1,000 people”

New Publication: Beyoncé in Diskussion Musikpädagogik

My new article has just been published in Diskussion Musikpädagogik’s special issue on @beyonce, a respected journal in music education. In it, I explore Beyoncé’s voice through an intersectional lens: as sound, as cultural positioning, as language, and as message. The piece asks what her artistry and the ambivalence between empowerment and the affirmation of dominantContinue reading “New Publication: Beyoncé in Diskussion Musikpädagogik”

New Publication: Multilingualism Through Community Music

My new peer-reviewed article “Multilingualism Through Community Music: Insights from the Second Pilot Phase of the ‘Community Music in Children’s Day Care Centres in Munich’ Project” is now published in the proceedings of the International Society for Music Education (@isme_cma), edited by @catherine.birchy Read the full article here: https://edoc.ku.de/id/eprint/35538/

Reflections from IOSFS Salzburg

Thank you @iosfs.forum for inviting me again to speak at this meaningful conference in Salzburg. It was such a warm and inspiring environment, full of talented people, music, dance, and presentations. I shared my new research on power dynamics in music education and questioned the gendered classification of voice. It was also so good to reconnect withContinue reading “Reflections from IOSFS Salzburg”

In Rhythm Together – Family Singing at the Museum Fünf Kontinente

Gemeinsam im Takt – Familiensingen im @museum_fuenf_kontinente Gestern wurde es musikalisch bunt: Rund 100 Menschen – von Säuglingen bis Senior*innen, aus allen Altersgruppen – kamen zum ersten Familiensingen zusammen. Es wurde gesungen, getanzt, musiziert und gelacht – mit Liedern aus verschiedenen Kulturen. Dabei waren auch zentrale Community-Music-Prinzipien spürbar: Musicking, Bottom-up-Learning und echte Gastfreundschaft haben denContinue reading “In Rhythm Together – Family Singing at the Museum Fünf Kontinente”