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M.A. Studies in Musicology and PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna with the dissertation „Gendered Dance Spaces: The Interdependency of Gender through Dancing in Southwest Madagascar“ (2018). DOC-fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and Marietta Blau Grant from the Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD).
Assistant Researcher at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (2016–2020) and University Assistant (post doc) at the University of Vienna (2020–2022). Co-chair of the ethnomusicology section of the German Society for Music Research (since 2018) and co-chair of ICTMD-Austria (2021–2023).
Academy scientist at the Phonogrammarchiv, in charge of publications and editions since October 2022.
Principle investigator (together with Dr. Anja Brunner, MMRC, mdw) and researcher in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 1000-ideas-project “Reverse Ethnomusicology: Migrant Musicians as Researchers“ (2023–2025), and principle investigator (together with Dr. Clemens Gütl,.PhA) in the Stadt Wien (Kulturabteilung, MA 7) funded project “The Colonial Entangled History of Sound Recordings: The Expedition of the Viennese Anthropologist Rudolf Pöch to Papua New Guinea (1904–1906).” (2023–2024).
Member of the Working Group on Non-Discrimination (AKG) of the ÖAW.
MAIN RESEARCH AREAS
Disciplinary research areas: music and dance research; gender studies with a focus on queer studies, and feminist and intersectional perspectives; methodologies of ethnographic music and dance research: audio-visual feedback methods, hybrid and multi-sited ethnography; engaged pedagogy;
Topics: the (re)cirulation of sound recording; music/dance and power; hierarchies in/of academic knowledge production; the coloniality of research; the body, embodiment, and performativity; political activism; music/dance and healing; voguing and ballroom in Europe; music and dance in Madagascar;
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
Gruber, Cornelia, and Micahel Fuhr. (2024). „Musik, Erinnern und kulturelles Gedächtnis. Perspektiven musikethnologischer Erinnerungsforschung“. In Musik, Erinnern und kulturelles Gedächtnis – Music, Remembering and Cultural Memory, ed. by Michael Fuhr and Cornelia Gruber, 9–45. Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. open access: https://doi.org/10.18442/259
Fuhr, Michael, and Cornelia Gruber. (eds., 2024). Musik, Erinnern und kulturelles Gedächtnis – Music, Remembering and Cultural Memory. Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. open access: https://doi.org/10.18442/259
Cornelia Gruber. (forthcoming, 2024). „Kinästhetisches Wissen: Autorität durch Tanz und Gesang in Madagaskar“. In Autoritätsbildungen in der Musik, edited by Bernd Brabec de Mori, Marc Antoine Camp und Dorit Klebe. Zürich: Chronos Verlag.
Brunner, Anja, and Conny Gruber. 2023. „Migrant Musicians as Researchers. An Experimental Project to Turn Ethnomusicology Upside Down. Or Put it on Its Feet?“, in mdw–WEBMAGAZIN, https://www.mdw.ac.at/magazin/index.php/2023/11/27/migrierte-musiker_innen-als-forscher_innen/?lang=en.
Fuhr, Michael, and Cornelia Gruber. 2023. „Die Fachgruppe ‚Musikethnologie und vergleichende Musikwissenschaft‘ in der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung. Stationen - Positionen – Perspektiven“, Die Musikforschung 76/3, 281–288.
Cornelia Gruber, Charissa Granger, Marko Kölbl, and Talia Bachir-Loopuyt. 2022. “Working Together? Interrogating Collaboration towards Decolonizing Music and Dance Research.” In DIALOGUES: Towards Decolonizing Music and Dance Studies, hg. von Tan Sooi Beng and Marcia Ostashewski, https://ictmdialogues.org/, The Dialogues (11/24).
Cornelia Gruber. 2021. „Das Potenzial von videobasierten Feedbackmethoden für die Musikethnologie. Perspektiven auf Repräsentation, Wissensproduktion und Fragen der leiblichen Erfahrung“. In Musikethnographien im 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Barbara Alge, 89–115. Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft.
Cornelia Gruber. 2021. “Haunting the (Post)Colonial Gaze. Visual Representation and Perceptions of Ethnographic Music and Dance Research.” In Diggin' Up Music: Musikethnologie als Baustelle,edited by Michael Fuhr, Kerstin Klenke und Julio Mendívil, 140–159. Hildesheim: Olms Verlag.
Cornelia Gruber. 2019. „Politics of Women Dancing in Madagascar: Relating Critical Perspectives on Gender”. In Ethnomusicology Matters. Influencing Social and Political Realities, edited by Ursula Hemetek, Marko Kölbl and Hande Sağlam (double blind peer-reviewed), 163–190. Wien (u.a.): Böhlau.
Cornelia Gruber. 2015. „Spaces of Interaction: An intersectional approach to dancing in mortuary ceremonies in Southwest Madagascar.” International Forum on Audio-Visual Research – Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs 6, 51–73.
Anja Brunner, Cornelia Gruber, and August Schmidhofer (eds.). 2015. Transgressions of a musical kind. Festschrift für Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
Teaching