Cynthia Marie Grund

Curriculum

Please see

http://soundmusicresearch.org/CV/CMG_CVkort.pdf

Post-retirement update forthcoming.

Research Interests

During various periods during my years 1999-2020 at SDU, my work related to a variety of areas, among others philosophy of music, aesthetics, philosophy and popular culture, theory of argumentation and logic at all levels and theory of argumentation and the integration and development of digitalization into teaching and research within these areas. I foreground these areas, because one of my great concerns as an emerita regards the optimal methods for documenting and archiving is work that was done within digitalization relating to teaching and research within my chosen areas during the first two decades of the millennium. These two decades marked a progression from virtually no use of digital methods to widespread, almost obligatory use of these techniques. At the turn of the millennium, the development and implementation of these methods was largely the responsibility – and at times the expense - of the individual teacher/researcher – there were almost no standardized tools available, so there was much room for individual development and implementation. Since digital methods saw meteoric rise, development and standardization, clearly many of the digital tools developed in the initial years of these decades were either superseded by technical improvements, adoption of standardized digital tools by universities – and the inevitable sidelining of tools developed early on as standardization became increasingly dominant.

     One project that I hope will wrap up this year (2025) is the movement of the 2003-2018 journal The Journal of Music and Meaning (www.musicandmeaning.net) to a new home at tidsskrift.dk under the aegis of The Royal Danish Library in a new, secure, future-proofed milieu. This project is being carried out with my fellow SDU emeritus, Mikael Aktor. We are essentially reformatting everything; no one could have known what the future held in 2003, the year I became Editor-in-Chief.

     When this project is completed, I will turn to the issues attendant to documentation and archival of an assortment of networks under my  supervision – www.ntsmb.dk, www.nnimpa.dk, www.philpopculture.dk and www.soundmusicresearch.org as well as a wide variety of digital tools developed for teaching and for the interaction of students with courses.

     Given the development and refinement of PURE, I also have quite a bit of work to do here documentation and archival for which there now are affordances that have improved significantly during the past few years.j

Research information

For the time being please see http://soundmusicresearch.org/CV/CMG_CVkort.pdf