Helmut Brenner

Helmut Brenner (born 1 January 1957 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria ) is an Austrian ethnomusicologist.

Life

Helmut burner for the time being studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts (now the University of Music and Performing Arts ) in Graz. Here he graduated in 1981 with the artistic diploma for trumpet, and the State teaching certificate in 1982. The Magister ( Mag. ) He graduated in 1984. From 1975 to 1986 he worked as a teacher in music schools.

From 1986 studied Helmut Brenner musicology and history at the Universities of Graz and Vienna. In 1995 he completed his studies with the PhD. from. Since 1987, Brenner et al and he lectured at the Universities of Graz, Mexico City, Innsbruck and Saarbrucken.

In 2000 he was commissioned by the UNESCO as a consultant on a mission through various countries in Central and South America to investigate the history and present situation of the marimba traditions in ten Latin American countries. 2004 saw his Venia legendi ( Habilitation ) for the subjects ethnomusicology and popular music by the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken with a thesis on " marimbas in Latin America" ​​.

Currently he is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Ethnomusicology Graz University of Arts and took and also takes lecturer at the inter-university course of study musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Karl-Franzens -University Graz and at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas UNICACH Tuxtla Gutierrez (Mexico) true.

Burner is one of the few habilitated ethnomusicologist in the German- speaking countries that deal both in research and in teaching primarily with Latin America. Another focus in teaching is the folk song research.

  • Is the song ... The large Austrian working singer - book. Leykam, Graz, 1986, ISBN 3-7011-7177-7.
  • (Ed. ): Contributions to the study and care of Folk Music in Baden- Württemberg: Speeches of the folk music symposium in Ochsenhausen from May 23 to 27, 1990; The musician, Special Issue / Landesmusikrat Baden- Württemberg, Karlsruhe 1990. Permalink German National Library
  • Music as a weapon? Theory and practice of political use of music, as exemplified by the Styria 1938 - 1945 1st edition. . Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, Graz 1992, ISBN 3-900310-58-0.
  • - Wolfgang Nagele, Andrea Pühringerhütte: In the Shadow of the Phoenix. Ups and downs of a dominant industrial company and its impact on the region. 1st edition. Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, Gnas 1993, ISBN 3-900310-81-5.
  • Gehundsteh Herzsoweh. Archduke Johann song traditions before, in addition to and after "Where i go and steal ." Culture Ars Styriae Archduke Johann, Miirzzuschlag 1996, ISBN 3-900970-02-5.
  • Música ranchera. The Mexican equivalent of Country and Western Music from a historical, musical and commercial point of view. Music Ethnological Collections, Volume 14, Hans Scheider, Tutzing 1996, ISBN 3-7952-0867- X.
  • Juventino Rosas - His Life, His Work, His Time. Detroit monographs in musicology, studies in music, Volume 32 Harmonie Park Press, Warren, Michigan, USA 2000, ISBN 0-89990-976-0.
  • Marimbas in Latin America. Historical facts and status quo of Marimbatraditionen in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Accompanying materials: 1 CD. Studies and materials on musicology, Volume 43 Georg Olms - Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-12959-4. - Text content online.
  • (Ed.): In order not to lose them. Sing traditions in Veitsch. Star light, Veitsch / Graz / Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-938651-05-6. - Text content online. (2nd edition. Lichtenstern, Veitsch / Graz / Saarbrücken 2009).
  • (Ed. with Daniel Fuchsberger ): In order not to lose them. Sing traditions in iron ore, Hieflau, Radmer and Vorderberg, Cool Major, iron ore in 2012, ISBN 978-3-200-02626-1 Permalink Austrian Library Network
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