Priv.-Doz. Ass.-Prof. Dr. Bernd Brabec

Monograph

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2015. Die Lieder der Richtigen Menschen. Musikalische Kulturanthropologie der indigenen Bevölkerung im Ucayali-Tal, Westamazonien [Songs of the Real People. A Musical Anthropology of Indigenous People in the Ucayali Valley, Western Amazonia]. Innsbruck: Helbling Academic Books.

Edited Volumes and Issues
(* with peer review)

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. In prep. 2023. Ethnomusicology in the Anthropocene. Cumulative Habilitation in Musicology, University of Innsbruck.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd (ed.). In prep. Listening and the Construction of Meaning. Special Issue in Musicologica Austriaca [Introduction by Brabec de Mori and 6 contributions].

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd, Marc-Antoine Camp & Dorit Klebe (eds.). In print. Autoritätsbildungen in der Musik [Constructions of authority in music]. Zürich: Chronos [Introduction by the editors and 20 contributions].

Publications, Conference Papers, and Lectures

Brabec de Mori, Bernd & Martin Winter (eds.). 2018. Auditive Wissenskulturen. Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis [Auditory knowledge cultures. The knowledge of sonic praxis]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [Foreword by Karin Bijsterveld, introduction by the editors, and 18 contributions]

Brabec de Mori, Bernd; Matthias Lewy & Miguel A. García (eds.). 2015. Sudamérica y sus mundos audible. Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas [South América and its Audible Worlds. Cosmologies and Sonic practices of South American Indigenous Peoples]. Berlin: IAI & Gebr. Mann. [Foreword by Anthony Seeger, introduction by the editors, and 15 contributions].

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd (ed.). 2013. The Human and Non-Human in Lowland South American Indigenous Music. Special Issue of Ethnomusicology Forum, vol. 22(3). [Introduction by Brabec & Anthony Seeger, and 5 contributions].

Winter, Martin; Richard Parncutt & Bernd Brabec de Mori (eds.) 2011. 1st SysMus Day Graz. Abstract Book. Graz.

EMLAAK (of which Brabec de Mori is a member) (ed.). 2011. Unsichtbare Welten: Mensch –Natur - Übernatur [Invisible Worlds: Human Being – Nature – Supernature]. Exhibition catalogue of an ethnographic photograph exhibition at the Vienna museum of ethnology ‘Völkerkundemuseum’. Vienna: LIT.

Journal Articles
(* with peer review)

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. In prep. ‘The Role of Listening in the Prehistoric Emergence of Speech and Song: A Precursor of Becoming Human? In Artsoundscapes ERC project special Issue.

* Lewy, Matthias & Bernd Brabec de Mori. In review. ‘Collaborative Restitution, Archiving and Curating of Sound as an Agent of Knowledge Transfer.’ Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology XX(X): XX-XX.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. Accepted. ‘The Shaman’s Drum: Eurocentric Interpretations of Non-European Sonic Worlds’. VIRUS – Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin XX(X): XX-XX.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. In print. ‘Turbulencias sonoras en el no-lugar. Epílogo. [Sonorous turbulences at the no-place, epilogue]’ Contrapunto. Revista de musicología XX(X): XX-XX.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2021. ‘The power of social attribution: Perspectives on the Healing Efficacy of Ayahuasca. Frontiers in Psychology: Social and Personality Psychology 12: 748131. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748131

* Rahman, Elizabeth & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2020. ‘Breathing Song and Smoke: Ritual Intentionality and the Sustenance of an Interaffective Realm.’ Body and Society 26(2): 130–157.

* Stoichita, Victor A. & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2018. ‘Response to comments on “Postures of Listening”.’ Terrain. Anthropologie & sciences humaines, on-line: https://journals.openedition.org/terrain/17579.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2017. ‘Musical Spirits and Powerful Voices: on the Origins of Song.’ Yearbook for Traditional Music 49: 114–28.

* Stoichiţă, Victor A. & Bernd Brabec de Mori; with comments by Elizabeth Tolbert, Robert Hatten, Tim Ingold, Michel Kreutzer & Jerome Dokic. 2017. ‘Postures of Listening – An ontology of sonic percepts from an anthropological perspective.’ Terrain. Anthropologie & sciences humaines, online: https://journals.openedition.org/terrain/16418.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2017. ‘Paths of Healing, voices of sorcerers. The ambivalence of Shipibo curative songs in Amazonia.’ Terrain. Anthropologie & sciences humaines, on-line: http://terrain.revues.org/16425. DOI: 10.4000/terrain.16425

* Schaffler, Yvonne & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2016. ‘«Cuando el misterio insiste»: The Construction of Authority in Dominican Vodou.’ International Forum on Audio-Visual Research 7: 138–66.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2016. ‘What Makes Natives Unique? Overview of Knowledge Systems among the World’s Indigenous People.’ Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies 8: 43–61.

Lewy, Matthias & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2016. ‘Récits et objets sonores. À l’écoute de l’Amazonie [Sound Stories and objects. Listening to Amazonia].’ Totem 71: 13–15.

* Schaffler, Yvonne & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2015. ‘A multi-perspective analysis of videographic data on the performance of spirit possession in Dominican Vodou.’ Yearbook of the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 6: 100–125.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2015. ‘Sonic Substances and Silent Sounds: an Auditory Anthropology of Ritual Songs.’ Tipití. Journal of the Society of the Anthropology of Lowland South America 13(2): 25–43.

Bohlman, Philip V. & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2015. ‘Knowing, Performing, and Believing in Ethnomusicology.’ El oído pensante 3(1). Online: http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/ oidopensante/article/view/5898/5379

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2014. ‘Los Iskobakebo: la historia de un pueblo originario en peligro de extinción [The Iskobakebo: history of an aboriginal people in danger of being extinct].’ Lengua y Sociedad. Revista del Instituto de Investigación de Lingüística Aplicada 14 (1): 21–32.

* Schoer, Hein; Bernd Brabec de Mori & Matthias Lewy. 2014. ‘The Sounding Museum: Towards an Auditory Anthropology.’ Soundscape. The Journal of Acoustic Ecology 13: 15–21.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd & Anthony Seeger. 2013. 'Introduction. Considering Music, Humans, and Non-humans.' Ethnomusicology Forum 22(3): 269–86; Special Issue The Human and Non-human in Lowland South American Indigenous Music, ed. Brabec de Mori.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2013a. 'Shipibo Laughing Songs and the Transformative Faculty: Performing and Becoming the Other.' Ethnomusicology Forum 22(3): 343–61; Special Issue The Human and Non-human in Lowland South American Indigenous Music, ed. Bernd Brabec de Mori.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2013b. ‘La transformación de la medicina Shipibo-Konibo. Conceptos etno-médicos en la representación de un pueblo indígena.’ Estudios del Hombre 30: 203–43; Special Issue Etnografías de América Latina, ed. Eveline Sigl, Yvonne Schaffler & Ricardo Ávila.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2012. ‘About Magical Singing, Sonic Perspectives, Ambient Multinatures, and the Conscious Experience.’ Indiana 29: 73–101; Dossier Debating Animism, Perspectivism and the Construction of Ontologies, ed. Ernst Halbmayer.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2011. ‘The Magic of Song, the Invention of Tradition and the Structuring of Time among the Shipibo (Peruvian Amazon).’ Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2: 169–92.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd & Laida Mori Silvano de Brabec. 2009. ‘La corona de la inspiración. Los diseños geométricos de los Shipibo-Konibo y sus relaciónes con cosmovisión y música [The Crown of Inspiration: Shipibo-Konibo Geometrical Patterns and their Relations to Worldview and Music].’ Indiana 26: 105–34.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd & Laida Mori Silvano de Brabec. 2009. ‘Shipibo-Konibo Art and Healing Concepts. A Critical View on the “Aesthetic Therapy”.’ Viennese Ethnomedicine Newsletter 11(2–3): 18–26.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2009. ‘Words Can Doom. Songs May Heal: Ethnomusicological and Indigenous Explanations of Song-Induced Transformative Processes in Western Amazonia.’ Curare. Journal for Medical Anthropology 32(1–2): 109–30.

Brabec [de Mori], Bernd. 2004. ‘Sinchiruna Míriko. Un canto medicinal Shipibo de la Amazonía Peruana’ [Sinchiruna Míriko: A Medical Chant from the Peruv. Amazon]. Amazonía Peruana 28+29: 147–88.

Book Chapters
(* with peer review)

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. In prep. ‘Healing, or Reciprocity of Sorcery: What Drug Tourists and Neo-Shamans are mostly Unaware of. In Matthias Lewy, James A. Whitaker & Tarryl Janik (eds.), Sorcery in Amazonia: A Comparative Regional Exploration. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer & IAI.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. In print. ‘How to Charge a Voice with Power? – Transmuting Non-human Creativity into Vocal Creations in the Western Amazon.’ In Anne Goletz & Ernst Halbmayer (eds.), Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America. Oxford: Berghahn.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2022. ‘Academic (In)discipline, Research (In)sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes. In Pam Burnard, Elizabeth McKinlay, David Rousell and Tatjana Dragovic (Eds.), Doing Rebellious Research in and Beyond the Academy, pp. 99-113. Leiden: Brill.

Kretz, Johannes, Wei-Ya Lin & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2021. ‘Creative (Mis)understandings: A Methodology of Inspiration.’ In Annegret Huber, Doris Ingrisch, Therese Kaufmann, Johannes Kretz, Gesine Schöder und Tasos Zembylas (Eds.), Knowing in Performing. Artistic Research in Music and the Performing Arts, pp. 112–130. Bielefeld: transcript.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2019. ‘The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley or What We Can Learn from Songs.’ In Juan Javier Rivera Andia (ed.), Non-humans in Amerindian South America. Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs (EASA Series), pp. 167–196. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2018. ‘«The Inka´s Song Emanates from my Tongue»: Learning and Performing Shipibo Curing Songs.’ In Coriun Aharonián (ed.), La música y los pueblos indígenas, pp. 73–107. Montevideo: Centro de Documentación Musical.

Bermúdez, Juan, Lukas Dullnig, Stephanie Gmeiner, Hannes Matthäus, markus Rogenhofer, Florian Schriebl, Lukas Auer & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2018. ‘Von Klang(-)Wissen und anderen Fischen. Auditive Wissenskulturen von Konzertfach- und Musikologiestudierenden im Vergleich (mit Kommentar von Susanne Sackl-Sharif) [Of Sound(-)knowledge and other fish. Auditory knowledge cultures of students in music and musicology compared (commentary by S. Sackl-Sharif)].’ In Bernd Brabec de Mori & Martin Winter (eds.), Auditive Wissenskulturen. Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis, pp. 283–302. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Sharif, Malik & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2018. ‘Auditives Wissen und ontologisch-epistemologischer Pluralismus. Ein Dialog für zwei Ethnomusikologen (mit Kommentar von Matthias Lewy) [Auditory knowledge and epistemological-ontological pluralism. A dialogue for two ethnomusicologists (commentary by M. Lewy)].’ In Bernd Brabec de Mori & Martin Winter (eds.), Auditive Wissenskulturen. Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis, pp. 93–114. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Winter, Martin & Bernd Brabec de Mori. 2018. ‘Auditive Wissenskulturen. Wissen, Macht und die Welt der Klänge [Auditory knowledge cultures. Knowledge, power, and sonic realms].’ In Bernd Brabec de Mori & Martin Winter (eds.), Auditive Wissenskulturen. Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis, pp. 1–31. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2017. ‘Music and Non-human Agency.’ In Jennifer Post (ed.), Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II, pp. 181–94. New York & London: Routledge.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2015. ‘Die Konstruktion von Historizität durch rituelle und konzertante Aufführungen – eine Annäherung [The Construction of Historicity through Ritual and Concert Performances – an Approach].’ In Nikolaus Urbanek & Michele Callela (eds.), Musikhistoriographie(n), pp. 259–79. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2015. ‘El oído no-humano: los agentes en las canciones indígenas, ¿un ‘eslabón perdido’ ontológico? [The Nonhuman Ear: Agents in Indigenous Songs, a Missing Link in Ontology?]’ In Bernd Brabec de Mori, Matthias Lewy & Miguel A. García (eds.), Mundos audibles de América. Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas, pp. 99–118. Berlin: IAI & Gebr. Mann Verlag.

Lewy, Matthias; Bernd Brabec de Mori & Miguel A. García. 2015. ‘Introducción.’ In Bernd Brabec de Mori, Matthias Lewy & Miguel A. García (eds.), Mundos audibles de América. Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas, pp. 7–25. Berlin: IAI & Gebr. Mann Verlag.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2015. ‘Singing White Smoke: Tobacco Songs from the Ucayali Valley.’ In Andrew Russell & Elizabeth Rahman (eds.), The Master Plant. Tobacco in Lowland South America, pp. 89–106. London: Bloomsbury.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2014. ‘From the Native’s Point of View: How Shipibo-Konibo Experience and Interpret Ayahuasca Drinking with «Gringos».’ In Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Clancy Cavnar (eds.), Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond (Ritual Studies Series), pp. 206–30. Oxford: University Press.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2013. ‘A Medium of Magical Power: How to do Things With Voices in the Western Amazon.’ In Dmitri Zakharine & Nils Meise (eds.), Electrified Voices. Media-Technical, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer, pp. 379–401. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht unipress.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2013. ‘Religion=Medizin. Lebenswirklichkeiten in Westamazonien am Beispiel musikalischer Transzendenz’ [Religion=Medicine: Lived Realities in Western Amazonia Exemplified with Musical Transcendence]. In Veronika Futterknecht, Michaela Noseck-Licul & Manfred Kremser (eds.), Heilung in den Religionen, pp. 167–94. Vienna: LIT.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2012. ‘Song Patterns and Sung Designs: the Invention of Tradition among Amazonian Indians as a Response to Researchers' Inquiries.’ In Richter, Pál (ed.), Musical Traditions. Discovery, Inquiry, Interpretation and Application., pp. 266–80. Budapest: Research Centre Humanities.

* Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2012. ‘Zur Psychologisierung der Funktionen von Musik und Drogen in westlichen Interpretationen indigener Rituale [The Psychologisation of the Functions of Music and Drugs in Western Interpretations of Indigenous Rituals].’ In Jacob A. van Belzen (ed.), Musik und Religion: Psychologische Perspektiven, pp. 97–124. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2011. ‘Tracing Hallucinations. Contributing to a Critical Ethnohistory of Ayahuasca Usage in the Peruvian Amazon.’ In Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Henrik Jungaberle (eds.), The Internationalization of Ayahuasca, pp. 23–47. Zürich: LIT.

Brabec de Mori, Bernd. 2007. ‘Wissenschaft und Dschungelkino - Schicksal eines feldforschenden Menschen im Amazonas [Research and “Jungle Cinema”: The Destiny of a Field Researcher in the Amazon].’ In Julia Ahamer & Gerda Lechleitner (eds.), Um-Feld-Forschung. Erfahrungen, Erlebnisse, Ergebnisse, pp. 133–45. Vienna: ÖAW.