Public lecture series of the Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
Summer term 2024
In many religions, music has also served to create gender differences. Bans on women singing and making music, for example, are not a phenomenon of radical Islam, but also characterised the Christian church for centuries. And when God is glorified in Baroque music with the same musical means as secular princes - with timpani and trumpets - a patriarchal image of God is established and reproduced to this day. On the other hand, it is precisely in singing and making music that liberation and self-empowerment can be created and experienced performatively. The lecture series will deal with various aspects of the topic - from Baroque nuns composing to the 'guitar gods' of rock music, from medieval singing bans to the use of digital media in Orthodox Judaism.
All interested parties are cordially invited!
Time and place:
Kuppelsaal of the Detmold University of Music
Willi-Hofmann-Straße 5
32756 Detmold
Wednesdays, 18:15-19:45
Programme
10 April
PROF. DR. REBECCA GROTJAHN (DETMOLD/PADERBORN): "Er stößt die Gewaltigen vom Stuhl". Self-empowerment and disempowerment, appropriation and dispossession in settings of the Magnificat
24 April
DR. MARTIN LOESER (GREIFSWALD): Religion, gallantry and gender in the early Enlightenment using the example of sacred music by Reinhard Keiser
8 May
DR. JESSICA RODA (WASHINGTON): For Women and Girls Only. Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy through the Arts in the Digital Age
22 May
PROF. DR. CORNELIA BARTSCH (HAMBURG): "What is the human being?" - Music as an interreligious language in the works of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
5 June
ASS.-PROF. DR. ANKE CHARTON (VIENNA): Between Paul and Cecilia: Faith, song and gender difference
19 June
PROF. DR. GUNDELA BOBETH (DÜSSELDORF): Volo Jesum, amo Christum: Religious Intensity in Text and Music in Isabella Leonarda (1620 -1704)
3 July
DR. SARAH SCHAUBERGER (BREMEN): Guitar Gods. On the gender mythology of the electric guitar