Study Group “Music and Violence”

The IMS Study Group “Music and Violence” was formed as a forum where scholars and researchers from all over the world share current research and expertise. It aims to facilitate a critical discussion, exchange, and collaboration concerning the ramifications of music and violence. Its scope is broad. It includes: current and historical uses of music and musical practices as a means of violence, as well as a means of resistance to violence during war and conflict; musical representations of violence; music as symbolic violence, that is, non-physical violence exercised between social groups in the form of Othering, shaming, negative recognition, and hegemony of (musical) values; the entanglement of music and musicking with environmental violence and destruction; and finally, the ways in which music has been embedded in systemic, racial, and gender violence in authoritarian as well as democratic regimes.

Anna Papaeti (GR)

Elsa Calero Carramolino (ES)

For a report of recent activities, as well as older reports, see the IMS Publication Archive.