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Helmut Brenner (1 January 1957 in
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, Austria – 17 February 2017) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist.


Biography


Education

Brenner received music degrees in 1981 and 1984 at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria, and earned a master's degree in history in 1993 and Ph.D. in musicology in 1995 at the
University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...
, (
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, Austria).


Career

From 1987 to 2017 he was the Professor and Researcher at the Institut für Ethnomusikologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Austria. In addition, in 1998/99 and 2010 he was guest lecturer at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck (Austria) and 1997-99 guest lecturer at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
(UNAM) in
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. In 2000/01 he has been engaged as a
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consultant for a multilateral
marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...
project with eleven participating Latin America countries within the program ''Patrimoine Oral e Immatériel de l'Humanité''. There he managed as field consultant a multilateral marimba-project in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. From 2002 to 2009 he was also Professor at the Musicological Institute of the
Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...
in Saarbrücken,
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and since 2009 Guest Professor at the ''Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas'' in
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, the most developed and populated in the state. A busy government, commercial and servic ...
(Mexico). In 2004 he earned his Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Venia legendi/Habilitation) in ethnomusicology and popular music research at the Saarland University (Germany) with a professorial dissertation (Habilitationsschrift) on Marimbas in Latin America.


Latin American music ethnomusicologist

Brenner was one of only few ethnomusicologists from the German speaking world dedicated to Latin American music, as well as to traditional and popular music.


Death

Brenner died on 17 February 2017.Helmut Brenner


Publications

* ''Stimmt an das Lied... Das große österreichische Arbeitersänger-Buch'', Graz: Leykam, 1986. * (Ed.): ''Beiträge zur Erforschung und Pflege der Volksmusik in Baden-Württemberg : Referate des Volksmusik-Symposiums in Ochsenhausen vom 23. - 27. Mai 1990''; Der Musikant, Sonderband / Landesmusikrat Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe 1990
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* ''Musik als Waffe? Theorie und Praxis der politischen Musikverwendung, dargestellt am Beispiel der Steiermark 1938 – 45'', Graz: Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, 1992. * (together with Wolfgang Nagele and Andrea Pühringer): ''Im Schatten des Phönix. Höhen und Tiefen eines dominierenden Industriebetriebes und deren Auswirkungen auf die Region'', Gnas: Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, 1993. * ''Música ranchera. Das mexikanische Äquivalent zur Country and Western Music aus historischer, musikalischer und kommerzieller Sicht'' (=Musikethnologische Sammelbände 14), Tutzing: Hans Scheider, 1996. * ''Gehundsteh Herzsoweh. Erzherzog-Johann-Liedtraditionen vor, in, neben und nach „Wo i geh und steh“'', Mürzzuschlag: Kulturkreis Ars Styriae Erzherzog Johann, 1996. * ''Juventino Rosas: His Life, His Work, His Time '' (=Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music 32), Warren, Michigan, USA: Harmonie Park Press, 2000. * (Ed.): ''Damit sie nicht verloren gehen. Singtraditionen in der Veitsch'', Veitsch-Graz-Saarbrücken: Lichtenstern, 2007; 2nd edition Veitsch-Graz-Saarbrücken: Lichtenstern, 2009. * ''Marimbas in Lateinamerika. Historische Fakten und Status quo der Marimbatraditionen in Mexiko, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Kolumbien, Ecuador und Brasilien'' (=Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft 43), Hildesheim–Zürich–New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007. * (together with Daniel Fuchsberger, Ed.): ''Damit sie nicht verloren gehen. Singtraditionen in Eisenerz, Hieflau, Radmer und Vordernberg'', Eisenerz: Cool-Dur, 2012. * (together with José Israel Moreno Vázquez and Juan Alberto Bermúdez Molina, Ed.): ''Voces de la Sierra. Marimbas sencillas en Chiapas'' (=Sonidos de la tierra. Estudios de etnomusicología 1), Graz-Tuxtla Gutiérrez:KUG-UNICACH, 2014. . * (together with Juan Alberto Bermúdez Molina, Lisa-Christina Fellner and Kurt Schatz): LiedSammlerVolk. Volksliedsammler und -sammlerinnen in der Steiermark, Steirisches Volksliedwerk, Graz 2016, .


References


External links

* http://www.kug.ac.at/studium-weiterbildung/studium/institute/institut-13-musikethnologie/personal.html?tx_kugpeople_pi1%5Bperson_nr%5D=50072&cHash=4e4b75f15c {{DEFAULTSORT:Brenner, Helmut 1957 births 2017 deaths Austrian musicologists Ethnomusicologists People from Mürzzuschlag