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Presenters
Tessa Balser-Schuhmann
Tessa Balser-Schuhmann (she/her) studied Musicology at the
University of Vienna. Her master’s thesis dealt with the audibility of
social class in singing voices. Currently, Balser-Schuhmann is working
on her doctoral thesis about musical and sonic practices as
transformative processes at the University of Vienna. Tessa is a guest
researcher in the research project “Women Musicians from Syria”
(FWF-Grant-DOI: 10.55776/V706) at the Music and Minorities
Research Center (MMRC) at the mdw - University of Music and
Performing Arts Vienna. Together with Anja Brunner, she researches
social class in diversity strategies in Western art music concert halls.
Thomas ("Tom") Solomon
Thomas Solomon is Professor of Musicology in the Grieg
Academy-Department of Music at the University of Bergen. He has
done field research in Bolivia on musical imaginations of ecology,
place, and identity, and in Istanbul on place and identity in Turkish
hip-hop. He has published widely on topics including popular music in
Turkey, music and indigeneity, music censorship, music and gender,
music and postcolonialism, music and diaspora, and music and the
body. His publications include articles in
the journals Ethnomusicology, Popular
Music, The World of Music, and Yearbook for
Traditional Music, as well as numerous
chapters in edited volumes.
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