what am i doing now?
i am currently in mannheim (germany) working full-time and focusing on the following projects & activities (last updated: 19.03.2023):
- running two bachelor degree programs at the popakademie baden-württemberg
- head of the library at the popakademie baden-württemberg
- editorial board chair of the aec project “stakeholder assembly on power relations in higher music education (PRIhME)“
- external member of the royal irish academy of music’s working group 1 “equality, diversity, identity, inclusiveness”
projects
i have very limited resources for other projects.
(pic: alexander münch)
current research & teaching projects
- music and extremism
- post-soviet popular music in belarus
- VIAs and their legacy
- songs of war in ukraine
- what is world music
- history of film music
- introduction to popular music studies
- musics of the world
- popular music history survey
- academic writing
current publication projects
- co-edited book on power relations within higher music education – writing stage
- article on songs of war – writing stage
- encyclopedia entry on popular music in belarus – writing stage
- article on shifts in post-Soviet Russian popular music – editing stage
personal projects
- trumpet
- teaching myself 5-string banjo
- photography (and some dark room dabbling)
- fishing
- cooking
(page inspired by sivers.org/nowff and chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-now-page-movement/61412)