1948 and All That: Soviet Music, Ideology & Power

Confirmed speakers

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John Barber (University of Cambridge)
Cold War and the Politics of Soviet Culture 1947-48

Kevin Bartig (Michigan State University)
Eisenstein and the Politics of Perception

Olga Digonskaya (The Glinka Museum of Music Culture and the Shostakovich Archive)
On a “Marginal” Work by Shostakovich: Re-dating and a Change of Context

Michael Fjeldsoe (University of Copenhagen)
Addressing the West: The 1948 International Conference of Composers and Music Critics in Prague

Christoph Flamm (Saarland University)
Good and bad nationalism? Musical historiography facing national elements in Soviet and post-Soviet periods

Rachel Foulds (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
“Too Bad…you could have made some money” : The “Forgotten” Works of Galina Ustvolskaya

Marina Frolova-Walker (University of Cambridge)
A Tale of Two Operas (and two resolutions): 'The Great Friendship' and 'With All My Heart'

Jana Howlett (University of Cambridge)
The Politburo and the 1948 Revival of Attacks on ‘Anti-artistic’ Phenomena in Culture

Yulia Karpova (Central European University, Budapest)
Fashion, Jazz and Rock-N-Roll behind the Iron Curtain: to the question of the first Soviet youth “subculture”

Ildar Khannanov (Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University)
Music Theory in the USSR in 1948: The Problem of Formalism

Ivana Medic (University of Manchester)
I Predict a Riot: Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony

Wolfgang Mende (Dresden, University of Technology)
Music censorship in the era of NEP and cultural revolution: The case of Nikolay Roslavets

Tom Miller (University of California, Berkeley)
In Deaf Taiga: Shamanic Vocal Knowledge, the Geopoetics of Yukagir Song, and Ghosts of the Soviet Past in Upper Kolyma

Simon Morrison (Princeton University)
“Fond 1929, Opis' 4”

Svetlana Savenko (Moscow Conservatoire)
RAPM (Rossiyskaya assotsiatsiya proletarskikh musykantov): life after death

Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley)
What's an awful song like you doing in a nice piece like this? (On Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto)

Kiril Tomoff (University of California, Riverside)
Gypsy Barons and the Power of Love: Operetta Programming and Audience Taste in the Shadow of Party Intervention

Machteld Venken (Catholic University of Leuven)
Signing a meaning to war memory

Elina Viljanen (University of Helsinki)
1948 as the Midpoint of Listening: Asaf’ev’s “Sounding Books”

Patrick Zuk (University of Durham)
Nikolai Myaskovsky and the "hysterical" Resolution of 1948

Chairs

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Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol)
Marina Frolova-Walker (University of Cambridge)
Huburtus Jahn (University of Cambridge)


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