Research award for Judith Rubatscher

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Judith Rubatscher, graduate of music education at the Mozarteum Innsbruck, was awarded a research prize by the Kanda Center of the University of Innsbruck for her ethnomusicological thesis "'Singen is a part vo unsam leben.' Die aktuelle Gesangspraxis der Schmiedeleut-I-Hutterer in Manitoba" (Supervisor: Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Nußbaumer). Rubatscher dealt with the musical tradition of the Hutterites, a Tyrolean Anabaptist community from the 16th century, which today is only represented in North America.

To develop the topic, Rubatscher, with financial support from the Mozarteum University, spent the summer of 2019 in the Hutterite colony of Fairholmes near Manitoba to research this group's current singing practices through audio recordings and interviews. The Hutterites, who still speak an ancient German and live in a community of goods, maintain the old-time songs of their founding days alongside newer musical repertoire, but increasingly use modern social media for musical transmission. Rubatscher's work (with audio CD) will be published in 2021 in the Mozarteum series "Schriften zur musikalischen Ethnologie.".

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