The core themes of GOING VIRAL are ephemeral phenomena: music and emotions, in the specific situation of health crises. In our research, we are constantly faced with the difficulty of putting these ephemeral phenomena into words – and binding them in the media of language and writing. How we can...
Now that our team is complete – with two Phd students and 2 Postdocs (the last starting in October) – we have decided to update this webpage. This is why the pages are currently under construction and do not reflect the up-to-date status of the project. For information about the...
On March 15, 2020, the day before the start of the first official covid-19 lockdown in Vienna, I took an evening stroll through the already quite empty streets of the urban third district. Almost back home, I passed an open window on the mezzanine floor of a Jugendstil House where...
Am 15. März 2020, einen Tag vor dem offiziellen Beginn des ersten Corona-bedingten Lockdown in Wien, war ich auf einem abendlichen Spaziergang durch den 3. Gemeindebezirk an einem offenen Fenster im Hochparterre vorbeigekommen, in dem eine junge Frau auf der Gitarre spielte und sang. Es schien eine entspannte Stimmung in...
This blog is designed to be the online platform for the ERC Starting Grant Project “Going Viral. Music and Emotions during Pandemics (1679-1919)” (PI Prof. Dr. Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild). The project will start 1 September 2022 and will go on for 5 years. The host institution is the University of...
