Magdalena Zorn, 08 June 2022
Due to recent developments in socio-cultural as well as technological terms, music is increasingly being revealed as a phenomenon of digital spaces and information technology. During the pandemic, when musical life took place almost exclusively online, a tremendous reinforcement and acceleration of this process was experienced.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Magdalena Zorn is a professor of musicology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Her main areas of research and teaching are 20th and 21st century music history, opera, intermediality, aesthetics and philosophy of music as well as music in digital cultures. She completed her Masters and Doctorate in Musicology at LMU Munich. Following her work as an opera dramaturge at the St. Gallen Theatre in Switzerland, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Musicology at the LMU Munich (2016–2022). Main publications include: Was ihr hört: Werke, was sie durch uns gewesen sein werden. München: edition text+kritik 2021 and „Aneignung in der Musik – Über die Instabilität ästhetischer Normativität“, in: Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Tobias Janz (ed.): Ästhetische Normativität in der Musik. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 2022.