Stockmann (Christine) Doris

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Stockmann (Christine) Doris

Stockmann, (Christine) Doris, German ethnomusicologist; b. Dresden, Nov. 3, 1929. She studied piano, opera production, and music theory at the Dresden Hochschule für Musik (1947–49) and musicology with Dräger, Meyer, and Vetter at Humboldt Univ. in Berlin; then studied ethnography, folklore, and linguistics with Steinitz there, taking her doctorate in 1958 with the diss. Der Volksgesang in der Altmark (publ, in Berlin, 1962). She became scientific assistant in ethnomusicology at the Inst. for German Folklore of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1953); lectured at Humboldt Univ. (1967–68) and at the univs. in Uppsala (1965) and Göteborg (1969). She publ. extensively, alone and with her husband, Erich Stockmann, on German and European folk music, particularly in their medieval and contemporary forms.

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