News Archive
2025
» Event review: This year's MMRC Lecture, which took place on 18 November, featured thought provoking contributions from Martin Stokes and Isabel Frey, with musical accompaniment by Marwan Abado. The event is now available to watch in the mdw media library.
» New FWF ESPRIT project approved: Starting in 2026, Chae-Lin Kim will lead the research project “Music for the Eye? An Ethnographic Study of Sign Choirs” at the MMRC.
» Updates from the M&M Journal: New Policy on “Authorship, Contributorship, and Artificial Intelligence” and new section “Forum”.
» Upcoming events with MMRC participation: The annual meeting of the Austrian National Committee of ICTMD will take place in Graz from 13–14 December
» Event recommendations: Symposium "Women’s Resistance, Art and Cultural Diplomacy" at the Central European University (02. – 03.10.2025) and the ceremony and symposium to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the "Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology (IVE)" (30.10.2020).
» The MMRC at the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM): Christian Poske, Amos Asare Darkwa, Peter Lell und Samo Zeichen.
» ICTMD Study Group on Music & Minorities: Kai Tang has been elected as the Study Group's chair, and Ioannis Christidis as its secretary.
» Announcement: journal Music & Minorities new review editor Evrim Hikmet Öğut, who is based at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul.
» Research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) programme "1000 Ideas": Ioannis Christidis and Isabel Frey: “(Un)heard Neighbors? An Urban Ethnomusicology of Proximity”.
» Ružake Gila: the project website is now available also in Romani.
» This year's AMMR grantees: Solomon GWEREVENDE, Carolin MÜLLER and Andrew SNYDER.
» MMRC events in late summer and autumn: "Ruža: Jekh hango so ašol – a voice that remains" (19 September 2025) and "Minority Voices in Civil Society: Exclusion – Inclusion – Solidarity in Music" (18 November 2025).
» Article: “Stories and Memories of Sinti Estraixaria: A Look at the Past and Present of a Dynasty of Musicians” by Antonella Dicuonzo in MMRC’s journal Music & Minorities
» Publication: "Constructing an Ethnic Minority through Musical Theater - A Case Study of the Zhuang" by Kai Tang in MMRC’s journal Music & Minorities
» The Call for Papers for the MMRC Symposium 2026 entitled "Between Research and Activism" has been published and invites the research community to submit papers
» Approval of the FWF Principal Investigator project by Jelena Gligorijević: "Made in YUGOSLAVIennA: Balkan Music and Multiple Marginality".
» Post-DocTrack - Scholarship: Ioannis Christidis selected by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
» New article by our colleague Kai Tang in the current issue of Musicologica Austriaca.
» Research project Reverse Ethnomusicology published in mdw-WEBMAGAZIN: articles by Constanza Lecaros and Maria Bunea
» April 8, the Voice of Diversity association invites you to a special event at Porgy& Bess in Vienna on the occasion ofthe International Rom*nja Day.
» We are proud to announce that Music& Minorities (M&M) is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
» The MMRC welcomes a new team member, Samo Zeichen.
2024
» Review of the 2024 MMRC Lecture with photos by Hanna Fasching and video (the mdw media library).
» The second Special Collection of our journal Music & Minorities has just been published, focussing on the topic "Contemporary Views on Romani Music and Romani Music Studies".
» Open Call: "Advancing Music and Minorities Research" (AMMR) seed money initiative: We invite postdocs from all over the world to submit their project ideas (deadline 9 March 2025)!
» We welcome two new staff members to the MMRC: Benjy Fox-Rosen and Peter Lell.
» New features have been added to our digital exhibition "Ružake gila - Ružas Lieder - Ruža's songs".
» Congratulations! Isabel Frey and Angelica Pinna awarded with the Musicologica Austriaca Best Paper Award 2024!
» Successful completion of the PhD-project "Music in the experience of forced migration from Syria to the European Borderland" by Dr. Ioannis Christidis
» AMMR grantee 2024: Jelena Gligorijević
» New member of the MMRC's Advisory Board: Georgia Curran (University of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
» Approval of two FWF ESPRIT project applications by Amos Darkwa Asare and Christian Poske
2023
» Call for Applications: AMMR - Advancing Music and Minorities Research seed money initiative! Please find further information here, Deadline: January 21, 2024.
» December 4 - 9: 12th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Minorities, including a joint day with the ICTMD Study Group on Indigenous Music and Dance! Video of the opening event
» November 24 - 25: Conference "Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe", review & photos
» November 16: The 2023 MMRC Lecture "amenca ketane. Histories of Trauma, Music and Romani empowerment", review & photos
» BFE Honourable Mention for Paper by María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán
» Call for Contributions: Special Collection of the MMRC's journal Music & Minorities "Contemporary Views on Romani Music and Romani Music Studies"
» ICTMD Honorary Membership for Ursula Hemetek
» Remembering Yoshitaka Terada († 2023)
2022
» Friday, November 25, 7 pm (CET): Listening to the Songs of Indigenous Lands. The 2022 MMRC Lecture
» Apply now: Advancing Music and Minorities Research: A Seed Money Initiative for Research Project Development
» Retrospective Symposium "Macht der Musik. Minderheitenpolitische Interventionen": Reports of ORF-Volksgruppenredaktion "Diversität" und "Hrvati"
» The MMRC congratulates its advisory board member Philip Bohlman on receiving this year's Balzan Prize! September 2022
» MMRC at the 46th ICTM World Conference in Lisbon, July 2022
» "Best Article Prize 2022" from ICTM for Evrim Hikmet Öğüt's article in Music & Minorities, July 2022
» Ursula Hemetek receives Gold Medal of Merit for outstanding achievements at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, June 2022
» Ursula Hemetek on the radio: SWR2 Wissen, Die Roma in Europa (3/3) – Zwischen Gipsy Rap und Romantisierung, March 2022
2021
» GAIN Gender & Agency Research Award goes to Jasemin Khaleli, December 2021
» Launch and public presentation of MMRC’s new journal "Music & Minorities", December 2021
» The 2021 MMRC Lecture: Queering Identity in Music: Perspectives from Ethnomusicology, September 2021
» Adelaida Reyes, 1930–2021, August 2021
» On Sunday, August 1, 9:05 a.m. and then available online for 7 days: Ursula Hemetek as a guest on the Ö1 radio program "Gedanken", July 2021
» The research project "Klingender Gemeindebau" in the media: The radio program "Eigenklang" and Ursula Hemetek's article in mdw Magazine are now available online, May 2021
» MMRC welcomes two new staff members: Jasemin Khaleli and Anja Brunner, April 2021
2020
» Reading and listening recommendations, December 2020
» The 2020 MMRC Lecture, November 2020
» Dawn Catty at mdw, August 2020
» Ö1 radio program Gedanken featuring Ursula Hemetek, Juli 2020
» Listening and reading recommendations, April 2020
» New members of the MMRC team, March 2020
» Recent media reports on the MMRC, March 2020
» Remembering Bruno Nettl, January 2020
» Kick-off Event of the Music and Minorities Research Center, November 2019
» First meeting of the international Advisory Board of the MMRC, July 2019