Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

The field of sounds, music and movement is both complex and broad, from linkages between sporting activities such as martial arts and dance to the meaning of music in health contexts like dementia. Not least, movement and its cultures, communities and places are remembered in auditive popular culture. In this class, students will focus on three thematic strings:
I Sports, sounds and auditive art
- fight screams and dance elements in martial arts
- fight dances/arts: a short history of capoeira and taijiquan
- "unathletic sounds"? the long discussion of grunting in ball sport
- interfaces of youth cultures and sports
- your interests
II Movement and health
- music in therapy and rehabilitation
- listening, rhythm and dementia
- mood management and beyond
- your ideas
III Popular music embodying the cultural memory of... moving?
- sport movies, hymns and social contexts
- embodiment, dance & knowledge
- your questions

Oral presentations can be held in these subtopics or are self-chosen.
Further selection of contents will be collected and exchanged early in class.
Please check the seminar plan for all scheduled presentations sessions and bring your choice or form a collaboration from the first session on. Last presentations will be scheduled in session 3. Please check the seminar plan for all upcoming contents as well.

Students gain deepened knowledge of a) movement, sounds and auditive art, b) music and audio used in health contexts, and c) sound cultures that remember and narrate (sports) communities and icons as parts of society. They will get to know ways and sources of approaching and analyzing their topics (also known as theories and methods ;-) ).

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