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Music & Politics
Volume 15, Number 2
Summer 2021
Thomas Sebastian Köhn studied musicology at the University of Oldenburg, with a focus on the cultural history of music, gender studies, and media. From 2019 to 2020, he was a doctoral researcher in the project “Sounding Memories: Nazi Persecution and Anti-Nazi Resistance in the Music of Contemporary Germany,” funded by the German Research Foundation (2017–2020). In 2021, he began working as a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Musicology, with a special focus on Popular Music Studies, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. He conducts research on memories of the Holocaust and World War II in contemporary German-language hip-hop by Jewish artists, combining approaches from music and media analysis and ethnomusicology. His research interests include the intersections between musicology, sound studies, intersectionality research, and cultural memory studies.
Sidney König received his MA in musicology from the University of Cologne in 2016. From 2017 to 2020, he was employed as a researcher in the DfG-funded project “Sounding Memories,” and became a research associate at the Institute for Music at the University of Oldenburg in 2021. His PhD project focuses on music and the memory of WWII in Berlin.
Martin Ringsmut is an ethnomusicologist, musician and lecturer in ethnomusicology and popular music studies at various German Universities (including Cologne, Saarbrücken, Heidelberg and Lüneburg). He holds a MA in musicology, philosophy and German literature from the University of Cologne and is finalizing his dissertation in ethnomusicology on Cape Verdean music and its significance for processes of spatialization and social belonging on the islands. Since 2017, he is also engaged in research on musical memorializations of WWII focusing on German Sinti and Roma. Between 2016 and 2021, he served as national representative in the executive committee of the IASPM D-A-CH branch.
Monika E. Schoop is an assistant professor of popular music studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Together with Federico Spinetti, she co-coordinated the research project “Sounding Memories: Nazi-Persecution and Anti-Nazi Resistance in the Music of Contemporary Germany,” funded by the German Research Foundation (2017–2020). Her research interests include music and memory, protest music, music industries, scenes, gender and queer studies, and popular music in the Philippines. She is the author of the book Independent Music and Digital Technology in the Philippines (2017) and co-editor of the Popular Music and Society special issue “Music and the Politics of Memory: Resounding Antifascism across Borders” (2021).
