Chair of Transcultural Musicology
The world's first Unesco Chair in Transcultural Musicology is established in Weimar. The chair is held by Tiago de Oliveira Pinto.
Unesco has awarded the Chair of Transcultural Music Studies at the Joint Institute for Musicology of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena the title of Unesco Chair on Transcultural Music Studies. It is the twelfth Unesco Chair in Germany, working in a worldwide network with over 700 chairs in 124 countries to implement the Unesco goals and the Global Sustainability Agenda.
The Unesco Chair, based in Weimar, researches musical performances in their socio-cultural, historical and global contexts. The focus is on musicians as bearers of the performing arts in accordance with the Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The opportunities and challenges of recognizing music traditions as intangible cultural heritage for the transmission and valorization of these forms of expression will be examined.
