Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music (REEM)
Central and Eastern European Music: Musical Crossroads?
Oxford University Faculty of Music (Denis Arnold Hall, St Aldate's)
Saturday 26 June 2010
Convenors: Katerina Levidou and Philip Bullock
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Programme
9.30-10.00 COFFEE
10.00-11.45 SESSION ONE: Ethnomusicological Perspectives
Chair: Anna Stirr (St John’s College, University of Oxford)
Jesse A. Johnston (Bowling Green State University): ‘Moravia as Global Crossroads: Local and “World” Music in the Southeast Czech Republic, 2004–2006’
Polina Proutskova (Goldsmiths College, University of London): ‘Transmission and Performance of Russian Traditional Music in Today's Russia and Beyond’
Joshua Walden (Merton College, University of Oxford): ‘Stempenyu Plays and Yidl Fiddles: Representations of the Eastern European Shtetl Violinist in Music for Theater and Cinema’
12.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.15 SESSION TWO: Music and Literature
Chair: Rosamund Bartlett (King’s College, University of London)
Robert Rawson (Canterbury Christ Church University): ‘German Moon, Czech Fire: A Meeting Point of National Perceptions in Eighteenth-Century Music’
Beatrice Birardi (University of Salento): ‘Italian Futurism as a Place of a Meeting between Western and Southern Culture: The Case of Franco Casavola and Hrand Nazariantz’
15.30-16.00 TEA
16.00-17.45 SESSION THREE: Cultural Networks and Meeting Points
Chair: Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London) (tbc)
Philp Bullock (Wadham College, University of Oxford): ‘Sibelius and the Russian Traditions: Northern Europe between East and West’
Ivan Moody (CESEM – The New University of Lisbon): ‘Interactions between Tradition and Modernism in Serbian Church Music of the 20th Century’
Katy Romanou (University of Athens): ‘Petrushka Must Learn to Dance the Zeibekiko’
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Background: In the last twenty years or so, scholarly interest in Russian music has undergone a renaissance in the UK. There are now around ten music departments where either Russian or East European music (or both) is offered as a staff specialism, with the result that there has been a rapid expansion of postgraduate interest. There are also growing links between musicologists and Slavists working in Russian departments, and between British-based scholars and Russians. The idea for a BASEES Study Group for Russian and East European Music (REEM) has been raised by several scholars from different institutions in the last year, and it seems that, with this recent upsurge of interest, the formation of this Group is timely, even overdue. The group is affiliated to the University of Oxford Music Faculty.
Purpose: The Study Group will seek to foster collaborative research and exchange of ideas within this growing community. By extending the research profile of the Study Group to include East European music, we will gain from the expertise of several well-established British academics with excellent connections with Polish, Hungarian and Czech scholars. We also hope to develop contacts with colleagues in Russia and Eastern Europe, wherever possible enabling scholars to travel to the UK. There is no musicological forum that would facilitate this as an ongoing project, and all such exchanges are currently made on an ad hoc basis. BASEES offers a unique opportunity to organise this in a more structured way, and should therefore create much closer links between scholarly communities here and abroad.
The Study Group has a number of key aims:
- To foster research links between scholars working in music and Russian departments in the UK. To this end, the convenors feel it important that the organization of the Study Group’s activities is the product of collaboration between Slavists and musicologists;
- To provide a forum for academics and postgraduates to exchange ideas and meet one another at regular conferences, with the possibility of resulting publications;
- To explore the many connections between Russian and East European musicological issues and develop contacts between scholars working in these areas;
- To support and encourage postgraduate research into Russian and East European Music;
- To bring musicologists into the wider community of BASEES, something which should greatly benefit both Slavists interested in musical issues, and musicologists who need a less narrowly 'musical' forum to discuss broader cultural and aesthetic issues;
- To establish and maintain an email list, in order to inform members of the Study Group about forthcoming events of interest;
- To raise the presence of REEM at meetings of the Royal Musical Association.
The inaugural conference, EASTERN EUROPEAN MUSICAL RELATIONS, took place in the Department of Music, University of Bristol, on Saturday 24 June 2006. The 2006 programme can be downloaded here.
THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION and BASEES RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN MUSIC STUDY GROUP held a POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY on Russian and East European Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on 10 February 2007
REEM held a conference on MUSIC IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE AFTER ‘THE THAW’ at the Department of Music, Victoria Rooms, University of Bristol, on Friday 29 June 2007. The programme can be seen here.
In 2008 REEM held a conference on RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES, in association with the Oxford University Faculty of Music and the Bate Collection, which took place at the Denis Arnold Hall in Oxford on 1 October and was organised by Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough. The programme can be seen here.
REEM held a conference on MUSICAL NATIONALISM AND MODERNISM IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE on 17 October 2009, which was hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and was organised by Katerina Levidou and Rosamund Bartlett. The programme can be seen here.
Revisiting the Past, Recasting the Present:
The Reception of Greek Antiquity in Music, 19th Century to the Present
Athens (Michael Cacoyannis Foundation), 1-3 July 2011
BASEES Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music ::: Polyphonia Journal ::: Hellenic Music Centre
Convenors:
Rosamund Bartlett, Philip Bullock and Katerina Levidou.