englischGhost notes are ubiquitous in the rhythm of popular music: quiet notes or beats played between louder ones, filling in the metric grid. Nina Düvel's qualitative expert interviews with drummers explore for the first time why musicians use them and how they relate to the perception of groove [...]

englischThis book not only offers valuable ethnomusicological insights into the ritual music of the Tibetan Yungdrung Bön tradition. At the same time, it is an extraordinary case study in which Christiane Strothmann captivatingly describes her many years of collaboration with the Tibetan monastic [...]

englischThe 2022 PISA study marks a new low in the ongoing problem of developing pupils' reading skills. Belinda Akel addresses the desideratum of the lack of implementation of reading promotion programs at secondary level. Based on a multifactorial concept of reading competence, the self-developed [...]

englischWho is studying Islamic Studies in Germany today – and why? In this first nationwide survey, over 400 students of Islamic Studies provide information about their study motivation, career goals and views on Islam. Germany's future experts on Islam can thus be described more closely for the [...]