Biography

Mario Dunkel has been a junior professor of music education with a focus on transcultural music education at the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg since 2017. He studied music, English and American studies in Dortmund, Atlanta and New York. In 2014, he completed his doctorate at TU Dortmund University with a dissertation on representations of jazz history. His research focus includes (1) music education and transcultural music mediation, (2) connections between music and politics, and (3) cultural and musicological research on jazz and popular music. He is editor of Popular Music and Public Diplomacy: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (with Sina A. Nitzsche) and Principal Investigator of the international research project "Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe" (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, 2019-2022).

Selected publications

Appen, Ralf von and Mario Dunkel. (Dis-)Orienting Sounds - Power-critical perspectives on popular music. Bielefeld/London: transcript, 2019.

Dunkel, Mario. "Sexism in Contemporary Jazz: An Intersectional Discourse Analysis", in: Yearbook Music & Gender, Volume 12: Intersectionality and Mediality in the Contemporary Music Industry, edited by Anke Charton, Björn Dornbusch and Kordula Knaus. Hildesheim: Olms, 2019. 101-117.

Dunkel, Mario. "Musik in der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik der BRD (1955-1990)", in Literature and Foreign Cultural Policy, edited by Dirk Kemper. Munich: Fink, 2019. 159-184.

Dunkel, Mario. "Music Education and the Production of Prestige: West German Music Diplomacy in South Vietnam (1960-1968)", in: Arts and International Affairs 3.2 (2018): 9-24. Special issue edited by Frédéric Ramel.

Dunkel, Mario and Sina A. Nitzsche. Popular Music and Public Diplomacy: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Bielefeld/London: transcript, 2018.

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