Der neue Band der European Voices VI – Herausgeber: Arian Ahmedaja, Senior Researcher am Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien – beinhaltet Beiträge aus den Vorträgen und Diskussionen des Symposiums selben Titels. Erna Ströbitzer, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Archivs des Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes hat dazu einen Beitrag mit dem Titel Finding answers in folk songs: A portrait of the Landl Quartett between Volksmusikpflege and folk revival verfasst.

Ardian Ahmedaja (ed.), Singing, Song, and Sound as Human Acts of Personal and Cultural Agency, Wien 2025. (auch als open access erhältlich, Link) | Englisch

english description: Johann Gottfried Herder characterised singing and song as human acts of personal and cultural agency (Herder and Bohlman 2017). These agencies are enacted musically, centralising the idea of “performance”. In this context, “singing” refers to the act of performance, which, due to its interactive nature in real time, is the most important moment of music-making, particularly in multipart music traditions, while “song” and its emergence remain the object and subject of the act of creation. “Sound” is an indispensable part of all these processes. The perception and interpretation of these aspects by different people affect both the practice and discourse of music, shaping meaningful experiences in terms of the attitudes and cognitive processes involved in its creation (Blacking 1973).

weiter Beiträge u.a.:

Ulrich Morgenstern, Playing without instruments in a patriarchal society: Russian mouth music as a practical substitution, an artistic niche, and an autodidact method.

Lauge Dideriksen, Non-Geometrical rhythm in European traditional music: Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation.

Susanna Schedtler/Herbert Zotti, On the relationship and mutual impact between the Alpine song and the Wienerlied.