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Musik und Klima, Katastrophe

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Subject according curriculum
General studies
Teachers
Dr. Benjamin Sprick
Semester
Wintersemester 2023/2024
Scope
Mondays 14:00-15:30, start: 09.10.2023
Room
BP 13 (Seminarraum Schulmusik)
Duration
1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
Description

Climate change has reached the classical music industry. The threat of total catastrophe is causing unmistakable dissonance in the global concert of highly cultural music production. How many more festivals can we afford? And what kind of servers will guarantee the enjoyment of digital 'concert streams'? What quantities of kerosene are blown into the atmosphere during an Asian tour by a top European orchestra? The seminar explores the far-reaching relationships between music and climate. The aim is to use the musical material itself to outline strategies for combating climate change in an aesthetically sustainable way ...

Literature

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Das Klima der Geschichte im planetarischen Zeitalter", Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2022; Bruno Latour, "Zur Entstehung einer ökologischen Klasse. Ein Memorandum", Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2022; Chantal Mouffe, "Eine Grüne demokratische Revolution. Linkspopulismus und die Macht der Affekte", Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2023; Greta Thunberg, "The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions", New York: Penguin Books 2023; Alexander Garcia Düttmann / Marcus Quent (eds.), "Die Apokalypse enttäuscht. Nuclear Death, Climate Catastrophe, Communism", Berlin: diaphanes 2023.

Credits
2 Creditpoints
Comments

A comprehensive reader with texts on the topic will be made available at the beginning of the seminar. Various guests will be invited to the individual sessions to discuss their respective positions on the topic.

Please register via email to benjamin.sprick@hfmt-hamburg.de

Self-enrollment via Moodle is also possible. There you will also find masses of material on the seminar topic as well as the seminar schedule.

Modules
Promotionsmodul, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge), Wahlmodul Lehramt