Dr. Friedlind Riedel
Senior Scientist, Stellv. Vors. der Curricularkommission
Universität Salzburg, Unipark Nonntal
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1 Raum 2.116 , 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 662 80444653
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Research agenda
My work is animated by the basic media-theoretical claim, that aesthetic operations and technical procedures in their historical and cultural specificity take priority over the concepts that are taken to be fundamental to a given culture. This justifies and necessitates a rigorous analysis of practices and techniques which make up aesthetic milieus thus avoiding a line of reasoning that starts from universal claims about music, sound, listening or the body.
My research connects music and sound scholarship with ideas from Theravāda Buddhist thought, German media philosophy, and phenomenology. It combines three significant strands of musicological inquiry: the development of Burmese musical drama (pyazat) from the royal patronage of the nineteenth century until the present, a new concern with the conceptual entity of “the human”, and an interest in cultural techniques (Kulturtechniken) of dramatic staging and religious ritual.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Theories, histories and configurations of listening
- Music in/as religious procedures
- Theravadah Buddhist thought
- Kulturtechnikforschung & Medienanthropologie (a.k.a. German media philosophy)
- Burmese pyazat (opera) and natpwe (transformation ritual), from 19th onwards
- Cultural techniques of transformation
- Procedures of appearing and revealing on stage
- Phenomenology & music as atmosphere
Publications: Books
List of peer-reviewed articles and chapters (selection)
2023 “Staging Karma: Cultural Techniques of Transformation in Burmese Musical Drama“ In Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, ed. by Harris Berger, Friedlind Riedel, David VanderHamm. NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
2023 with Berger, Harris M. and David VanderHamm “Phenomenological Approaches in the History of Ethnomusicology.” In Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, ed. by Harris Berger, Friedlind Riedel, David VanderHamm. NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
2021 “Environnement et émanation. Essai de sémantique historique de l’atmosphere.” In L‘usage des ambiances. Une épreuve sensible des situations, ed. by Didier Tallagrand, Jean-Paul Thibaud, and Nicolas Tixier, 239–250. pdf
2020 “Atmospheric Relations: Theorising Music and Sound as Atmosphere.” In Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds, ed. by Friedlind Riedel and Juha Torvinen, 1–42. London: Routledge. pdf of the entire edited volume
2020 “Affect and Atmosphere – Two Sides of the Same Coin?” In Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds, ed. by Friedlind Riedel and Juha Torvinen, 262–73. New York: Routledge. pdf of the entire edited volume
2019 “Atmosphere.” In Affective Societies: Key Concepts, ed. by Jan Slaby and Christian v. Scheve, 85–95. New York: Routledge. pdf
2019 “The Atmospheres of Tones: Notions of Atmosphere in Music Scholarship Between 1840 and 1930.” In Atmosphere and Aesthetics: A Plural Perspective, ed. by Tonino Griffero and Marco Tedeschini, 293–312. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pdf
2018 “On the Dynamic and Duration of Atmosphere: Sounding Out New Phenomenology Through Music at China’s Margins.” In Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically, ed. by Sara A. Schorer and Susanne B. Schmitt, 172–88. London: Routledge.
2016 “On Resonances of Music and Atmosphere.” In Ambiances, Tomorrow: Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Ambiances, ed. by Nicolas Rémy and Nicolas Tixier, 671–76. Volos.
2015 together with Simon Runkel. “Understanding Churchscapes: Theology, Geography and Music of the Closed Brethren in Germany.” In The Changing World Religion Map, ed. by Stanley D. Brunn, 2753–82. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
2015 “Music and Atmosphere: Lines of Becoming in Congregational Worship.” Lebenswelt 6: 80–111.
