​Martin Hoondert

Martin J.M. Hoondert (* 1967) studied musicology and theology and is specialized in music and rituals.

Since 2007 he is (assistant) professor of ‘Music, Religion & Ritual’ at the Department of Culture Studies of Tilburg University (the Netherlands).

 

His research focuses on ‘music and death’

and ‘practices of memorialization’. His research topics are: the contemporary requiem, musical repertories of funeral rites, commemoration and music, music and grief/bereavement, music and consolation, music and the First and Second World War, practices of memorialization regarding genocide (esp. Rwanda and Srebrenica).

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E-mail: m.j.m.hoondert@tilburguniversity.edu