- Subproject 1: Mainz
Antonia Fendt (M.A.)
Research Associate
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Institute for Ethnology and African Studies (ifeas) / University Library Mainz (UB Mainz), African Music Archives (AMA)
- Email: a.fendt@ub.uni-mainz.de
- Tel: +49 6131 39 31343
Antonia Fendt is a research associate at Mainz University Library in the KOSTIMA research project and a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies. In her research, she uses cognitive and structural linguistic methods to examine Lingala-language music from the Archives for African Music (AMA) with respect to hidden political messages in song lyrics from the Mobutu era.