Martin Ringsmut

  • University of HildesheimCenter for World Music

Contact Info:

  • ringsmut@uni-hildesheim.de

Biography

Martin Ringsmut is an ethnomusicologist, musician, and coordinator of the SDG Graduate School ‚Performing Sustainability. Cultures and Development in West Africa’ at the Center for World Music. He holds an M.A. in musicology, philosophy and German literature studies and a PhD in musicology from the University of Cologne. His dissertation “Cape Verdean Rhythms: Kolá San Jon, Spatialization and the Performance of Caboverdianidade” delves into questions of social spaces and identity formations on the Cape Verdean islands. Between 2017 and 2020 he was a researcher in the DFG funded project “Sounding Memories” in which he studied cultural memory formations of the persecution of Sinti and Roma during WWII in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Poland. Beyond studying the music in his two main research areas, i.e. the Cape Verdean islands and central Europe (with a focus on Sinti and Roma), he is especially interested in questions of cultural memory and identity, (post)colonialism and globalization.