Project Details
Projekt
Dynamics of Institutionalization in Independent Music Theater
Applicant
Professor Dr. Anno Mungen
Subject Area
Musicology
Term
since 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 387849349
After examining institutional transformation processes of public opera houses in Germany, the project intends to examine independent music theater in order to understand further the dynamics of aesthetic and institutional transformation of contemporary music theater. Motive for this is the increased foundation of independent theater groups that are dedicated to musical formats of performing arts. While opera houses are struggling with far-reaching problems of legitimacy and thus, with tendencies towards de-institutionalization, independent music theater tends to consolidate and stabilize its institutional structures. Increasing legitimization and institutionalization, which suggests the growing importance of these formats within the performing arts, are being stimulated by numerous initiatives by the actors themselves; but also by the development of structural support through cultural-political funding instruments. Considering European interdependencies of independent music theater on the one hand and its alternative concepts of body, voice and gender on the other, the project pursues a specific culture of independent music theater, which is reflected in its aesthetic concepts and practical work, but also in its institutional structures and developments.
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