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. Published

    Schwitters und die Herzinsel: Resonanzen auf Merz

    Maset, P., 01.08.2016, In: Das Plateau. 156, p. 43-47 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  2. Published

    A fragile kaleidoscope: Institutions, methodologies and outlooks on German popular music (studies)

    Ahlers, M. & Jacke, C., 01.12.2016, Perspectives on German Popular Music. 1 ed. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 3-15 13 p.

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

  3. Published

    The History of Music Production: By Richard James Burgess. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014

    Ahlers, M., 01.10.2016, In: Popular Music. 35, 3, p. 472-473 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  4. Published

    Pop-Musik-Analysen: Theorien, Techniken, Methoden

    Ahlers, M. L. J., 15.08.2016, In: Diskussion Musikpädagogik. 71, p. 27-34 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  6. Published

    Synästhetische Strategien in der Kunstvermittlung: Dimensionen eines grundlegenden Wahrnehmungsphänomens

    Hallmann, K., 18.02.2016, 1 ed. München: KoPäd Verlag. 214 p. (Kontext Kunstpädagogik; vol. 42)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

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    Lingua musica? Zur Erfassung musiksprachlicher Kompetenzen Jugendlicher in textbasierten Testinstrumenten.

    Ahlers, M. L. J. & Seifert, A., 12.2015, Musikpsychologie - anwendungsorientierte Forschung. Auhagen, W., Bullerjahn, C. & Georgi, R. V. (eds.). Göttingen: Hogrefe Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, p. 222-237 16 p. (Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie; vol. 25).

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

  8. Published

    Astronaut

    Zuther, D., 20.10.2015, In: Praxis des Musikunterrichts. 124, p. 4-13 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  9. Published

    Bye Bye

    Zuther, D., 20.08.2015, In: Praxis des Musikunterrichts. 123, p. 4–15 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  10. Published

    Sprachliche Heterogenität im Musikunterricht

    Ahlers, M. L. J. & Seifert, A., 01.10.2015, Theoretische Rahmung und Theoriebildung in der musikpädagogischen Forschung. Niessen, A. & Knigge, J. (eds.). Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 235-249 15 p. (Musikpädagogische Forschung; vol. 36).

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