Taren Ackermann
Research Focus
- Music and Identity
- Music Therapy
- Aesthetics in Music Therapy
- Perception of Music
- Musical likes and dislikes
Vita
Academic Education
| Since 10/2014 | Doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Music Department, Frankfurt/M. |
| 11/2014 | M.A., Clinical Music Therapy, University of Münster, with a thesis about music listening and identity formation in adolescence |
| 2012-2014 | Masterstudium Klinische Musiktherapie an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität |
| 2008-2012 | B.A., Musicology and Education, University of Kiel |
Professional Experience
| Since 2016 | Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Music Department, Frankfurt/M. |
| 2011-2012 | Project collaborator at the Department for Culture and Qualification, City of Kiel, Germany |
| 2009-2012 | Tutor for music theory at the Institute of Musicology, University of Kiel |
Publications
Ackermann, T.-I. (2019). „Disliked Music“ – Merkmale, Gründe und Funktionen abgelehnter Musik. Kassel University Press, Kassel. DOI: http://dx.medra.org/10.19211/KUP9783737650885
Conference Proceedings
Ackermann, T. (2016). Disliked Music: The other side of musical taste. 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco.
Ackermann, T. (2016). "I don't like that!" - Why and what for we dislike music. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology SysMus16, Jyväskylä.
Ackermann, T. (2016). Musikgeschmack und Identität in der Adoleszenz. Ich - Du - Wir. Regionaltreffen der Deutschen Musiktherapeutischen Gesellschaft, Köln.
Ackermann, T. (2015). Disliked music and self-concept: a revealing connection?. International Workshop on Quantitative and Qualitative Music Therapy Research, Barcelona.
Ackermann, T. (2014). Die Bedeutung abgelehnter Musik im Jugendalter. Klang und Identität. Interdisziplinäre Stipendiatentagung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Naumburg a. d. Saale.
Awards & Grants
Scholarships
| 2010-2014 | Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation |
Projects
- Disliked Music
In Western cultures, musical taste, understood as a particular attitude towards music, is an important aspect of one’s self-concept and self-perception. As an affective and expressive medium, music not only serves to satisfy emotional and ...