Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education combines artistic, pedagogical and research-based expertise within the disciplines fine arts and music, with a particular emphasis on contemporary forms and practice. Lecturers offer modules for students enrolled in the Bachelor and Masters programmes within the faculties of Education and Humanities, in addition to the minor programme Popular Music Studies and the Early Childhood Music Further Education programme. Public exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events are of great importance within in the institute. These collaborative projects are innovatively developed and presented with and for our students thereby enriching the cultural life of the university.

Main research areas

Research activities

Junior professorship for Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic Practices

Professorship for Arts Mediation

Professorship for Music Education, in Particular Popular Music
Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlers

Professorship of Musicology, in particular Popular Music Studies
Prof. Dr. Monika Schoop

  1. 2021
  2. Published

    Maria Del Mar Alonso Amat/ Elisabeth Magesacher/ Andreas Meyer: Musik ausstellen

    Ahlers, M., 2021, Krisenzeiten. Münster: LIT Verlag, p. 202-205 4 p. (Zeitschrift für Museum und Bildung; vol. 90-91).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksCritical ReviewsResearch

  3. Published

    Music and the Politics of Memory: Resounding Antifascism across Borders: Special Issue of Popular Music and Society

    Schoop, M. (Editor), Spinetti, F. (Editor) & Hofman, A. (Editor), 2021, Taylor & Francis.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  4. Published

    Not Just Riot Grrrls! Punk Rock Feminism in the Philippines

    Schoop, M., 2021, Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media. Bristol: Intellect, p. 89-105

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Musikalische Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Nationalsozialismus. Eine Autoethnographie des Erinnerungsprojektes Sound in the Silence im ehemaligen Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück

    Schoop, M., 01.01.2021, Musikethnographien im 21. Jahrhundert. Alge, B. (ed.). Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft Verlag, p. 253-286 34 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    “A Living Memorial for the Edelweißpiraten”: Musical Memories of Cologne’s Anti-Hitler Youth

    Schoop, M. E., 03.2021, In: Popular Music and Society. 44, 2, p. 193-211 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Introduction to Music and the Politics of Memory: Resounding Antifascism across Borders

    Spinetti, F., Schoop, M. & Hofman, A., 15.03.2021, In: Popular Music and Society. 44, 2, p. 119-138 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  8. Published

    New media as facilitators and tools of (popular) music education: Facts and findings from mainland China

    Yu, L., 01.04.2021, In: Journal of Music, Technology and Education. 14, 1, p. 93-115 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Doing Popkultur

    Ahlers, M. & Klingmann, H., 01.07.2021, Musikdidaktik: Praxishandbuch für die Sekundarstufe I und II. Jank, W. (ed.). 9. ed. Berlin: Cornelsen-Verlag, p. 226-234 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesEducation

  10. Published

    The Crowd in Flux: Atmosphere and the Governance of Public Affects at FC Union Berlin

    Jack, M., 01.10.2021, In: Ethnomusicology. 65, 3, p. 497-518 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Editorial introduction to the special issue on crises at work: Potentials for change? what have we become, my sweetest friend?

    Ahlers, M. & Herbst, J. P., 15.10.2021, In: IASPM Journal. 11, 1, p. 2-5 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research