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Department of Cultural Studies
COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Music – Intersectionality – Diversity. Aesthetic Orders and Orders of Knowledge in the Early 20th Century

Project duration: 4/1/2023 – 3/31/2024

Financing: Mariann Steegmann Foundation

The research project Musik – Intersektionalität – Diversität. Ästhetische Ordnungen und Wissensordnungen im frühen 20. Jahrhundert is dedicated to the question of the significance of figures of the "primitive" and the feminine for the construction of modernity in European avant-garde movements during the first third of the 20th century. Using various examples such as the European reception of jazz, modern dance and the multimedia art forms of the avant-gardes, it examines how these figures of alterity become the agents of a universalistically conceived modernity. The concept of diversity is also applied here to the aspects of time and writing: to the spatialization of the universalistically conceived, linear time of the European Enlightenment and to the multiplication of writing through the new technologies of phonography and cinematography, which was constitutive for the differentiation of musical orders of knowledge in the 20th century.

Project management

Dr. Cornelia Bartsch