Gretel Schwörer-Kohl

Prof. Dr. Gretel Schwörer-Kohl is a faculty member at the Institute for Music, Media and Speech Sciences within the Faculty of Philosophy II at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She studied musicology, ethnology, and East Asian art history at the universities of Freiburg, Cologne, and Hamburg.

Research Interests:

• Music in ritual contexts
• Spread of mouth organs in East and Southeast Asia
• Ethnomusicology of South and Southeast Asia
• Organology and cultural anthropology

Academic Roles:

• Habilitation (1998) on Burmese Nat spirit ceremonial music
• Doctorate (1980) on Lahu mouth organ traditions in Thailand