Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM) 21.–23.09.2001

University of Hildesheim
Institute for Music and Musicology

Theme: Music in everyday life – The social psychology of music

 

PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS

(updated: 14 September 2001)

 

Friday, 21. 9. 2001

ab 11:00 Opening of conference office

14:00 Welcome:

(a) Dr. Christian Grahl

Chancellor of the University of Hildesheim

(b) Prof. Dr. Heiner Gembris,

1. President of the DGM

 

Chair: Heiner Gembris

14:30 Adrian C. North (University of Leicester, England)

Music and Consumer Behaviour

 

15:15 Desmond Mark (University of Music, Wien, Austria)

The development of social psychology in Vienna and its role in emprical radio research

 

16:00 coffee break

16:30 Harm Willms (Klinik für Psychotherapeutische Medizin an der Fachklinik Schleswig)

Is music the language of the emotions? On the socio-psychological functions of music

 

18:00 dinner

20:00 Recital with Ragna Schirmer (piano) and Hans-Jörg Pohl (Violoncello) in the Music Hall of the University of Hildesheim

 

Saturday, 22. 9. 2001

Chair: Reinhard Kopiez

9:30 Hans Neuhoff & Silke Borgstedt (Technical University, Berlin)

" Stefanie is always with you". Fan/Star-relationships in German "Volkstümliche Musik" of the 1990s

10:00 Irving Wolther (University of Music and Drama, Hanover)

The Eurovision song contest – A study on a music-focused fan culture

 

10:30 coffee break

11:00 Claudia Bullerjahn & Stefanie Heipcke (University of Hildesheim)

Karaoke, a tautology of the popular. Surveys on the motivation and images of karaoke singers

 

11:30 Peter Vorderer & Holger Schramm (University of Music and Drama, Hanover)

Who selects which music; when and why? Empirical results of a representative telephone survey

12:00 lunch

 

Chair: Isolde Vetter

14:00 Blanka Bogunovic, Ksenija Rados, & Panta Kovacevic (Music School"Josip Slavenski" in Belgrad/Music Academy Universityof Belgrad, Jugoslavia)

Socio-psychological factors for musical success in the lower grades of music school

 

14:30 Gunter Kreutz (University of Frankfurt)

Music preference and aggression in fourthgraders

15:00 Imke-Marie Badur (University of Hildesheim)

Self-initiated activities in music by children at primary school level

15:30 coffee break

Chair: Claudia Bullerjahn

16:00 Dorothea Muthesius (Berlin)

"And what about everyday life?"– "It just goes by." Scenes of music use in narratives of old people

16:30 Helmut Möller (Berlin)

Performance anxiety in musicians

 

17:00 Claudia Spahn, Karin Seidenglanz, Horst Hildebrandt & Nico Eli (Universitätsklinik Freiburg/Universitätsklinik Mainz/Musikhochschule Zürich/DRK-Klinik Baden-Baden)

Health attitudes and behaviour of musicians

 

17:30 Jörg Langner & Wolfgang Auhagen (Humboldt-University, Berlin)

Representations of timbral expressiveness and their acoustic correlates (Cancelled)

 

18:00 dinner

20:00 General assembly DGM

 

Sunday, 23. 9. 2001

Chair: Andreas Lehmann

9:00 Uwe Maas & Süster Strubelt (Witten)

The role of bimetric music in central Africa

 

9:30 Hans-Joachim Maempel (Berlin)

The effect of sound design on the evaluation of pop music. An account of an experimental investigation

 

10:00 Poster session (for topics see end of programme)

 

11:00 coffee break

Chair: Christoph Louven

11:30 Gabriele Hofmann & Cordelia Volland (University of Augsburg)

Depiction and recognition of emotional expression in musical improvisation by children and adults

 

12:00 Anja Fleischer (Technichal University of Berlin)

Metric analysis between theory and empirical experiment

 

12:30 Closing discussion (Chair: Heiner Gembris)

13:00 End of conference

 

 

Poster

Grit Sommer, Christliebe el Mogharbel, Markus Wenglorz, Werner Deutsch & Ingo Lauffs (Technichal University, Braunschweig/University of Music and Drama, Hanover)

"Singing but not speaking". A longitudinal single case study about an autistic girl

 

Christine Kohlmetz, Reinhard Kopiez & Eckart Altenmüller (University of Music and Drama, Hanover/School of Medicine, Hanover)

Stability of motor programs during a state of meditation: Electrocortical activity in a pianist playing "Vexations" by Erik Satie continuously for 28 hours

 

Andreas C. Lehmann & Stefan Ammersbach (School of Music, Würzburg)

Out of fashion? A survey among adolescent members of wind bands regarding their current satisfaction. joining and dropout motiviation

 


 

Registration and conference fees

Conference fees:

(a) Registration up to 15 July: DGM-members: 90 DM, reduced fee: 45 DM

non-members: 120 DM, reduced fee: 60 DM

(b) Registration after 15 July: DGM-members: 120 DM, reduced fee: 60 DM

non-members: 150 DM, reduced fee: 75 DM

(c) One day ticket: 55 DM, reduced fee: 30 DM

Please pay conference fees to account No. 16699-306 at the Postbank Hannover, BLZ 250 100 30

 

Written registration to the treasurer:

Prof. Dr. Christoph Louven, Franz-Nekes-Straße 11, D-41812 Erkelenz,

Fax 02432/908363, E-mail Christoph.Louven@sgw.hs-magdeburg.de

Further information concerning the activities of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM) see http://www.music-psychology.de