Dr. Taren Ackermann
Research Focus
- Music and Identity
- Music Therapy
- Aesthetics in Music Therapy
- Perception of Music
- Musical Taste
- Musical likes and dislikes
Vita
Academic Education
| 05/2019 | Doctor of Philosophy, University of Kassel, Germany |
| 09/2014 | Master of Arts, Clinical Music Therapy, University of Münster, Germany |
| 07/2012 | Bachelor of Arts, Musicology and Education, University of Kiel, Germany |
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
Ackermann, T., Fiedler, D. & Schaal, N. (2017). 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) 05.-09. Juli 2016; San Francisco (USA). Musikpsychologie, 27, 234–238.
Ackermann, T. (2014). Die Bedeutung des Musikhörens bei der Identitätskonstruktion im Jugendalter. Masterarbeit für den Master of Arts, Master Thesis, Westfälische-Wilhems-Universität Münster, Münster. Verfügbar unter https://www.uni-muenster.de/Musiktherapie/Literaturdienst/bestellservice.html.
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 ...