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Personal profile
Research interests
My research focuses on music and migration, especially the displacement of European musics and musicians caused by the catastrophes that characterise the 20th century. I have published on migratory musics in all its forms, spanning various genres from functional to popular to art musics. My work has been published in numerous edited collections, journals, encyclopedias, and elsewhere.
My most recent book, Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in 20th-century Music explores concepts of migratory musical culture and aesthetics and links these to wider socio-cultural backgrounds. Zooming in on specific migratory moments, I tackle themes such as institutionalization, nationalism, displacement, modernism, and Jewishness, and uncover the potential of seemingly marginalized migratory musics to inform dominant historiographical narratives. Musical Journeys received the inaugural RMA/CUP Monograph Prize 2020.
My first book, Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond, co-edited with Erik Levi and named Outstanding Publication of the Year by Choice Magazine, has been described as 'a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on the relationship of music to place and displacement.' It explores the significance of displacement for musical landscapes and music history from a wide variety of angles and case studies, incorporating art, popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas such as gender and post-colonial studies, critical theory, migration, and diaspora.
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Migration Mobilities Bristol
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Research Output
Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Scheding, F. (ed.) & Levi, E. (ed.), 2010, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow. (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities 10)Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music
Scheding, F., 1 Oct 2019, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. 206 p. (Music in Society and Culture)Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
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Hanns Eisler’s Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty: by Heidi Hart
Scheding, F., 10 Apr 2020, In : Music and Letters. 100, 4, p. 747-749 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Academic Journal)
Prizes
University of Bristol Teaching Awards
Scheding, Florian (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
RMA/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize
Scheding, Florian (Recipient), 9 Sep 2020
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Outstanding Academic Title
Scheding, Florian (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (Journal)
Florian Scheding (Editor)
2020 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (External organisation)
Florian Scheding (Advisor)
2020 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of external research organisation
Royal Musical Association (External organisation)
Florian Scheding (Member)
2020 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of external research organisation