"Sound Heritage in Audiovisual Media".
"Film Music, Moving Images, Politics", international conference, Universitatea Națională de Muzică din București.
Maria Fuchs is a musicologist and lecturer, currently working as a senior postdoc in the field of music and media culture at the Centre for Gender Studies and Diversity / University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
FWF Elise Richter Grant
"The Sonic Imaginaries of Africa in German Cinema (1930–2000)".
Head of the FWF project at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in cooperation with the Lautarchiv Berlin and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
2024
Centre for Gender Studies and Diversity, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
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Gastvortrag
"Riot Grrrl & Black Grrrls Riot".
Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Liebe, Körperlichkeit und Sexualität", Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Dezember 2024
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
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Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
Sonic Imaginaries
of Africa, 2024–2028
Research Project
This project aims to contribute to the emergence and development of the sonic imaginaries of cinematic Africa. From the beginnings of cinematography, Africa is an important production site for commercial films from the global North. Since sounds as a sensual dimension of the everyday form an elementary component of discourses and ideas about the African continent, this project aims to examine the sound of Africa in more detail, both historically and structurally. The processes and conditions of film music production will also be analysed through extensive empirical archive work.
Soundscapes of 'Heimat'
Mapping Musical Signatures, 2020–2023
Research Project
This project aims to contribute to the clarification of the concept of 'home' by showing how it is created in relation to media and pop music
and how it influences a sense of collective identity and social belonging. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the medium of film has proved to be an essential constructive element of 'home' in the German-speaking world. In the research literature on 'homeland' films and mountain films of Austrian/German film production, the important role of music in these films has so far been given little attention.
Stummfilmmusik.
Theorie und Praxis im "Allgemeinen Handbuch der Film-Musik (1927)"
Schüren: Marburg 2016
(= Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung 68)
Publication
This book examines the musical performance practice of silent film in Germany in the 1920s and sheds light on the early attempts at a theory and aesthetics of film music. The starting point for the study is the "Allgemeine Handbuch der Film-Musik" from 1927. Thereby, the genesis of film music conventions will be explored as well as the intermedial relationship between silent film music and music-aesthetic traditions.