Cornelia Nuxoll M.A., Research Assistant
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1979 in Hanover, Germany. Cornelia Nuxoll studied Social Anthropology and Religious Studies at the Philipps-University Marburg and the Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and on ethnomusicology. She pursued studies on the traditional and popular music of the West African Mande at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London under Dr. Lucy Durán. For her master’s thesis she conducted fieldwork in Burkina Faso, working on the role and function of percussion music as well as on the status and self-perception of drummers playing the Jembe drum. After graduating her interests turned to the question of the politics of development and she completed a postgraduate course on sustainable development in the profession of long-term developmental work.
As a percussionist, Cornelia Nuxoll applies her knowledge of African drums in educational and youth work and as an occasional consultant for music and drum teachers. Since November 2008 she has been a research assistant at the Department of Musicology of the University of Göttingen being part of the research group “Music, Conflict and the State”.
Main research interests
- Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology
- Music of sub-Saharan Africa
- Music of the Mande (West Africa)
- Theatre of Development
- Shamanism, Possession and African Religions
- Aesthetics of Religion and Sacred Spaces
Publications
- Reggae, Rebels and the Role of Music in the Sierra Leonean Civil War. In: ICA, Instituut Culturele Antropologie: Muziek. Spring Edition 1/2012, Leiden University, p. 22 -25.
- Grant, M. J., Rebecca Möllemann, Ingvill Morlandstö, Simone Münz & Cornelia Nuxoll:
"Music and Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", In: Interdisciplinary Science Review special issue: Music and the Sciences, Volume 35, Number 2, June 2010, pp. 183-198(16), Maney Publishing, Frans Wiering (ed.) - Little Drummer Boys: Music and Child Soldiers in the New Wars. Conference Paper: Probing the Boundaries: War, Virtual War and Human Security, Interdisciplinary Net, 1 - 3 Mai 2009 in Budapest. Electronic Document:
Little Drummer Boys: Music and Child Soldiers in the New Wars - Ein weites Feld: "Musiklandschaft Afrika" (A broad field: musical landscape Africa); In:
Querbrief, Quarterly of the World Peace Service, Berlin 2008.
www.peacexchange.eu/doc/Quer4_07Screen.pdf - Lebenswelten von Jembespielern (Bobo-Dioulasso): Performancekontext und Arbeitsalltag von Trommlern, Berlin 2006
- AMS/SEM/SMT Annual Meeting 2012, New Orleans, 1 – 4 November 2012
“We listened to it because of the message.“ Juvenile Soldiers and the Role of Music in the Sierra Leone Civil War. Evening Panel “Music and War“ (see Session 2-56)
- Music, Oppression and Resistance, 2 - 3 March 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bake Society for Performing Arts Worldwide & KVNM
Underage Soldiers and the Role of Music in the Sierra Leone Civil War
- 2011 SocArts Symposium on Music - Conflict - Transformation, 9 - 10 Mai 2011, University of Exeter
"We listened to it because of the message”: Juvenile Soldiers and Music in the Sierra Leone Civil War
- Children and War: Past and Present, 30. Sept - 2. Oct 2010, Salzburg/Austria
Cornelia Nuxoll & M J Grant: Children, music and the military: A historical overview. Panel 9
- Responsibility to the Story: Testimony and Ethics in Human Rights Research and Narratives, Alcuin Research Resource Centre, 10 - 11 September 2009, York
Responsibility to the Story: Testimony and Ethics in Human Rights Research and Narratives
- Probing the Boundaries: War, Virtual War and Human Security, Interdisciplinary Net, 1 - 3 Mai 2009 Budapest
Little Drummer Boys: Music and Child Soldiers in the New Wars
Unpublished research
Conferences / Paper Presentations