Emily Gernandt

Research Focus

  • Musical Taste Research

Vita

Academic Education

2018–2021

Master of Arts in Musicology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Master Thesis: "Development of musical taste by the example of Techno and Schlager. A qualitative study"

2014–2017

Bachelor of Arts in Musicology, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Bachelor Thesis: "Jazz in New Orleans. The Imagination of History"

Werdegang

Since 2023

PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt/ Main

2022–2023Visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt/Main
Seit 11/2022Intern at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt/Main

Publikationen

Conference Papers & Poster Presentations

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2023, September). Stilspezifische Unterschiede im Musikgeschmack: Gefallen und Ablehnungen verschiedener Musikstile [Poster Presentation]. 39th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Hannover, Germany

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2023, August). Schlager vs. Techno: Style-Specific Explanation Strategies of Musical Taste [Poster Presentation], 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC17-APSCOM7), Tokyo, Japan

Gernandt, E., Eggert, J., Fiehn, H., Kudakov, N., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2022, September). Covid-19-Version-Songs: Emergence, characteristics, and receptions of a new kind of musical contrafactum [Poster Presentation]. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (Sysmus), Ghent, Belgium.

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2022, September). Schlager vs. Techno: Stilspezifische Begründungsstrategien [Poster Presentation]. 38th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Würzburg, Deutschland

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2021, October). Schlager vs. Techno: Style-specific justifications [Konferenzbeitrag], 2021 Autumn SEMPRE Conference: Engaging and Interacting with Education, Music and Psychology Research, Keele University, UK