Reinhard Kopanski
Reinhard Kopanski
Short vita
Academicbackground
- since 06/2021: Research assistant in the international project "Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Oldenburg (School III; Institute of Music, Prof. Dr Mario Dunkel) - until 06/2021: Research assistant (65%) in the SFB 1472 "Transformations of the Popular" at the University of Siegen. Mario Dunkel)
- until 06/2021: Research assistant (65%) in the SFB 1472 "Transformations of the Popular" at the University of Siegen, sub-project A04 "Low Pop: The Sentimental Ballad" (Prof. Dr Florian Heesch)
- SoSe 2020: Lecturer at the Cologne University of Music and Dance
- 02/2020-03/2021: Coordinator of the Master's programme "Educational Science: Educational Theory and Cultural Practices" to be introduced at the University of Siegen (Fak. II, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, General Pedagogy, Prof. Dr Gabriele Weiß)
- 2014-2021: Research assistant at the University of Siegen (School II, Department of Art and Music; Popular Music and Gender Studies, Prof. Dr Florian Heesch)
- SoSe 2013: Lecturer at the Institute of Linguistics, Media and Musicology; Department of Media Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Training
- 09/2019: Doctorate in the subject of musicology at the University of Siegen under Prof. Dr Florian Heesch (2nd reviewer: Prof. Dr Michael Rappe, HfMT Cologne); dissertation submitted on 20 May 2019 under the title Alles ironisch? National Socialism in the Music of the Black Scene; thesis defence on 17/09/2019; grade: magna cum laude
- 07/2012: Master's degree in Music, Political and Media Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, grade 1.2
Memberships
- AG Populärkultur und Medien in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM)
- GfPM (Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung e.V.)
- IASPM D-A-CH (German-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music)
- ISMMS (International Society for Metal Music Studies), since 09/2019: Executive Board Member
Publications
Monograph
Kopanski, Reinhard (2021): References to National Socialism in Popular Music. Readings of Laibach, Death In June, Feindflug, Rammstein and Marduk, Münster: Waxmann, (Series "Popular Culture and Music"), (print in preparation).
Essays
Kopanski, Reinhard (2021): "Wir rufen Deine Wölfe - Der Reiz des Neofolk für die extreme Rechte." In: Die Tonkunst (15.3), 168-181.
Kopanski, Reinhard (2021): "Voicing outrage? Ignoring the matter? Explaining the problem! - A model of analysis for engaging with aesthetic references to national socialism during times of right-wing populism." In: Zeitschrift für Kritische Musikpädagogik, (peer review), (print in preparation).
Kopanski, Reinhard / Albrecht-Birkner, Veronika / Heesch, Florian / Stöhr, Ruthild (2021): "Interpreting Popular Christian Music from Theological and Musicological Perspectives: The Example of Damaris Joy." In: Conservative Religion and Mainstream Culture: Opposition, Negotiation, and Adaption, edited by Stefan Gelfgren and Daniel Lindmark. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 83-109.
Kopanski, Reinhard (2020): "'Auschwitz awaits' - Different readings on Sabaton's 'The Final Solution' (2010) and the question of irony." In: Metal Music Studies (6.3), Special issue: Metal, Jewishness and the Holocaust, 337-357, (peer review).
Kopanski, Reinhard (2020): "What makes Popular Christian Music 'popular'? A comparison of current US-American and German Christian music using the examples of Lauren Daigle and Koenige & Priester." In: Journal for Religion, Film and Media (6.2), 41-57, jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm, (retrieved: 25 November 2020), (peer review).
Kopanski, Reinhard (2018): "'The Moon Nazis Are Coming!' Laibach's Wagner appropriations in Iron Sky." In: Gesamtkunstwerk Laibach. Sound, Image and Politics, edited by Daniela Kirschstein, Johann Georg Lughofer and Uwe Schütte. Klagenfurt: Drava, 182-205.
Heesch, Florian / Kopanski, Reinhard (2018): "Sound - Text - Image: Intermedial aspects of black metal research." In: Analysing Black Metal - Transdisziplinäre Annäherungen an ein düsteres Phänomen der Musikkultur, edited by Sarah Chaker, Jakob Schermann and Nikolaus Urbanek: Bielefeld: Transcript, 21-48.
Kopanski, Reinhard / Paal, Michael / Heesch, Florian / Hintz, Anna-Maria (2017): "Youth, Music and Politics (JuMP). Development and piloting of a questionnaire instrument on the musical lives and political interests of secondary school pupils." In: Samples (15). Online: www.aspm-samples.de/Samples15/Kopanskietal.pdf,(Retrieved: 19 May 2019), (Peer review).
Heesch, Florian / Kopanski, Reinhard (2016): "'Gender-Bender': Sound and cultural representation of a technology for voice transformation." In: PopScriptum(12) [Series published by the Research Centre for Popular Music at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin]. Online: www2.hu-berlin.de/fpm/popscrip/themen/pst12/ pst12_heesch_kopanski.pdf, (accessed: 19 May 2019).
Encyclopaedia article
Kopanski, Reinhard (2021): "Art. Rammstein." In: MGG Online, edited by Laurenz Lütteken. Kassel, (print in preparation).
Kopanski, Reinhard (2018): "Art. Åkerlund, (Hans Uno) Jonas." In: MGG Online, edited by Laurenz Lütteken. Kassel. Online: www.mgg-online.com/mgg/stable/46723,(accessed 19 May 2019).
Reviews
Kopanski, Reinhard (2017): "Review: Between Germanomania and Anti-Semitism. Transformationen altnordischer Mythologie in den Metal-Subkulturen ('Between Germanomania and Anti-Semitism: Transformations of Norse Mythology in the Metal Subcultures', Niels Penke and Matthias Teichert (Eds)(2016)." In: Metal Music Studies(3.2), 348-353. (Peer review)