09 February 2006
IMM studio A 2.24
Johannes Ullmaier on talking about music
"Music is a language that everybody understands", "Music needs no words" - if this were true, one should wonder how much has been said about music, not only by critics and listeners, but also by the artists themselves. Look at titles, liner and program notes, radio and TV announcements and interviews. In this field there is much to win and even more to lose: esthetically, stylistically, strategically, politically, economically, according to the choice of the medium and the expectation of such statements. Regardless of its importance - particularly in times of overproduction - there is little theory on this issue so for. The lecture of Johannes Ullmaier will present some examples of success and failure in the use of language in and about music.
Johannes Ullmaier, born 1968, teaches at the University of Mainz, works as an editor at the Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. and is co-editor of the Popmagazin testcard.
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