Gender dialogs

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All over the world, social norms of how the sexes treat each other are represented in music. They are questioned and negotiated, manifested, playfully converted, angrily accused or imaginatively conjured up. It is not uncommon for gender relations to be integrated into rituals and cultic practices through, with and in music and thus preserved for centuries, even in places where other forms of coexistence have long since developed in everyday life. At the same time, music can develop an enormous emancipatory power in asymmetrical power relations or provide places of retreat and thus have a unifying and binding effect. The series of events explores this topic using specific examples and looking at several continents and societies. It will also discuss migration, transculturalism and superdiversity. The emphasis will be on what connects us, the dialog, the universitas in the diversitas.

Concept and planning: Prof. Karin Holzwarth / Dr. Silke Wenzel
The lecture series will be continued in the summer semester.

How does transidentity sound?
The lecture series Gender Dialogues in Music Therapy is dedicated to free improvisation, free-associative musical play as an expression of the unconscious and a basis for exploring psychological structures and emotional states. Feelings of power, fear, despair, anger and joy manifest themselves in different ways in improvisations on sex- and gender-related topics in music therapy.
Gitta Strehlow (Clinical Music Therapist, Chair of Psychodynamic Thinking and Action, HfMT Hamburg) presents historical and current research findings on music therapy with female, male and diverse patients. The focus will be on the importance of music therapy approaches in dealing with gender-based violence. Lovis Determann (music therapist in a Hamburg practice for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy) poses the question: How can conflict issues of a transgender developmental path be made audible and treatable through music? And explores this question using a case study to illustrate and clarify it for the audience. The two speakers will explain and explore music therapy perspectives on gender diversity in cliché and practice.
Sound vignettes of thematic improvisations will complement the lecture and discussion.

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