The building of the RCH Institute for Musicology will be closed between November 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023 due to technical reasons. The staff of the Institute can be reached by email. Thank you for your understanding!

 

This closure only concerns the Institute itself, the Museum of Music History is still open from 10:00 to 16:00 every day, except for Mondays.

Nationalism in Music in the Totalitarian State, 1945-1989 (24-25, January 2015)

 

Video recordings of the papers on videotorium.hu

Pál Richter (Director of the Institute of Musicology RCH HAS): Opening of the conference

Richard Taruskin: The Ghetto and the Imperium (Keynote)

Peter Schmelz: Valentin Silvestrov and Ukrainian National Identity from Quiet Songs to the Maidan

Samuel Manzoni: Sollertinsky’s Eredity - How to Make a Symphony from Beethovenian Interpretation and Shakespearean Ideology

Jeff Siegfried: Modernism with Soviet Characteristics: Boris Asafiev’s Musical Form as a Process and Edison Denisov’s Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano

Anu Kõlar: Estonian Song Celebrations During the Soviet Era - Two Ways of Constructing Nationalism

Mark Lawrence: Veljo Tormis - Ancient Song Re-Employed

Urve Lippus: The Conflict Between ‘Official’ and Ethnographic (Authentic) Folk Music Ensembles in the Soviet Union and Veljo Tormis’s Folklore-Based Compositions in the 1970s

Ivana Medić: The Impossible Avant-Garde: The Curious Case of Vladan Radovanović

Valentina Sandu-Dediu: How Traditional Music Matches Romanian Avant-Garde

Nemanja Sovtić: ‘…Today, It Is No Longer Time to Disclaim a Man: An Artist Should Take Care of How to Establish Him Into His Work…’ Rudolf Brucci and the Criticism of the European Avant-Garde

Bianca Ţiplea Temeş: Sounding the Ethnic Note: Ligeti’s Romanian Concerto Within the Confines of the Iron Curtain Aesthetics

Elena Zinkevych: National Traditions and Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1960s

Brian C. Thompson: Zhao Jiping and the Sound of Resistance in Red Sorghum

Lóránt Péteri: The History of Hungarian Music Versus the Music History of Hungary: The ‘Question of Nationalism’ in Hungarian Musicology During the Post-Stalinist Period

Brigitta Davidjants: Identity Construction in Music: National Element in Armenian Musicological Discourse by Way of Example of Aram Khachaturian

Marcus Zagorski: Making the Postwar Avant-Garde More German - The Concept of the Experiment in Dahlhaus’s Historiography

Katy Romanou: The Effects of the Cold War Cultural Policies in Post-Dictatorial Greece

Péter Halász: Hungarian Music Between Renewal and National Tradition

Vladimír Zvara: ‘Slovakness’ in Music – A (Now Concluded) History

Hermann Danuser: Musical Nationalism After 1945 - The Case of the German Democratic Republic (Keynote)

Elena Dubinets: Non-Conformism or Nationalism? Yuri Butsko and His ‘Russian Dodecaphony’

Markéta Štefková: Why There Are Two Whirlpools Staged in Slovakia

Anna Dalos: Rediscovering Kodály. The Neo-Conservative Turn in Hungarian Composition (1971–1982)

Melita Milin: The Vigilant State and Orthodox Music - Little Stories from Socialist Yugoslavia

Martin Nygaard Hansen-Chernetskiy: Medieval Chant and Nationalism in Soviet Musicology

Nicolae Gheorghiţă: Nationalism Through Sacred Chant? Byzantine Musicology Research in Totalitarian Romania

Gesine Schröder: Nationalism Without Nation. Paradox Paths of the GDR Music and Music Theory

Ádám Ignácz: ‘Hungarian in Form, Socialist in Content’. The Concept of the Hungarian National Dance Music in the Rákosi-Era (1949-1955)

Ana Petrov: ‘Rock and Roll Will Keep Us Together’ - Music and the Yugoslav Collective Body in the Day of Youth

Srđan Atanasovski: Music Practices and Voluntary Youth Labour Actions in Socialist Yugoslavia - Producing the Territory of ‘Brotherhood and Unity’

Nikola Baković: Song of Brotherhood, Dance of Unity - Tours of Yugoslav Singers in the West in the 1960s and 1970s

Zachary Cairns: Music for Prague 1968: A Display of Czech Nationalism from America

Pál Richter: Dance House in the Hungarian Socialist Regime

Sonja Zdravkova-Djeparoska: Folklore, Dance in the Context of Modeled Ideological Messages

Matěj Kratochvíl: Our Song! – Nationalism in Folk Music Research and Revival in the Socialist Czechoslovakia

Branko Ladič: And Now We Present Folk Music Re-Worked by Masters: Transformations of Folklorism in Slovak Music

 

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