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Balzan Research Programme in Musicology Towards a global history of music Research Director: Reinhard Strohm Musical cultures under relationships of power: Eastern Europe and the Middle East The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mandel Building, Room 530, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 25-26 October 2015 Convenors: Anna G. Piotrowska, Ruth HaCohen
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Balzan Research Programme in Musicology
Towards a global history of music
Research Director: Reinhard Strohm
Musical cultures under relationships of power:
Eastern Europe and the Middle East
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mandel Building, Room 530, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
25-26 October 2015
Convenors: Anna G. Piotrowska, Ruth HaCohen
This workshop discusses the modes by which different groups immersed in relationships of power have shaped their musical voices in modern global history. What sort of musical voices have been developed by different groups under power relations? To what extent can these voices be considered as “original” or “native”, to what extent are they “subaltern” or “hybrid”? The hegemonic powers have often addressed them as “exotic”, thus projecting their own desire for alterity on the cultures they had conquered.
The aim is to spark off a discussion contributing to the larger project of a global history of music in recent times. We also hope to discuss the changing face of both global and regional histories of music in regard of political changes in the last century. Looking at the issues connected with language and translation of histories, we will try to investigate problems revolving around music and identity construction as well as the relations between music and social/ political situations. We will address such largely debated concepts as the complex of belatedness, subalternity, provincializing, cultural affirmation and identity recalibration.
25 October 2015 (Sunday)
10.15 Welcome: Reinhard Strohm
10.30 Welcoming Address by the International Balzan Foundation (Milan-Zurich): Suzanne Werder (Milan) -General Secretary of the Balzan Foundation and Gottfried Scholz (Balzan Foundation Prize Committee)
11.15 Coffee break
11.45 Opening lecture. Ruth HaCohen in dialogue with Edwin Seroussi: Music Under Power Relations in the Extended Near East
12.45 Lunch break
POWER, POLITICS AND MUSICAL LEGACY Chair: Marina Ritzareva
14.00 Marina Frolova–Walker: Managing National Musics: Stalin Prizes for the Soviet Republics (1940-1952)
14.45 Bennett Zon: Colonial mimicry and the construction of Hindu national identity: the case of Sourindro Mohun Tagore (1840-1914)
15.30 Coffee break
REVISITING ‘NATIONAL’ IN MUSIC Chair: Alexander Rosenblatt
16.00 Valentina Sandu-Dediu: Rumanian Music in 19th and 20th centuries: between Ottoman and Soviet influences
16.45 Judith Frigyesi: Béla Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin – Orientalism or Nationalism?
17.30 Drinks reception
18.30 Musical Performance – Music from the Eastern Caucasus in
Transition: The Art of Piris and Mark Eliyahu
Performers: Perez Eliyahu and Mark Eliyahu
26 October 2015 (Monday)
EAST OF EUROPE? EUROPE VIS-A-VIS THE MIDDLE EAST Chair: Abigail Wood
10.00 Nadeed Karkabi: From Zajal to Rap, and Back: On the becoming of ‘Palestinian Music’
10.45 Closing lecture. Martin Stokes: The Middle East in music history: an ethnomusicological perspective
11.30 Coffee break
12.00 ROUND TABLE ‘ Moderator: Anna G. Piotrowska
INSIDERS’ AND/OR ‘OUTSIDERS’ IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC IN EASTERN
EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Participants: Milena Boshikova, Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Avra Xepapadakou
13.30 Closing words from Reinhard Strohm
Contact: Elia Meron and Anna G. Piotrowska
