Popular Music in Eastern Europe Conference
2-3, June, 2016,
IEAS, University of Debrecen
Day 1
TIME / ROOM 111 / ROOM 109 / LECTURE ROOM II.9.00-9.45 / REGISTRATION
9.45-10.00 / Opening Ceremony
10.00-11.30
SESSION 1 / POPULAR MUSIC AND MEMORY
Kujtim Rrahmani
Voice of Singer – Voice of War: Aesthetics and Politics of Kosovo Battle (1389) Epic Cycle
Imola Bülgözdi
Rock Opera and Resistance:
Stephen, the King As a Building Block of Minority Ethnic Identity
Adam Havas – Adam Ser
“The Poor Neighbours”: The Construction of the Hungarian Jazz Scene / RAP /HIP-HOP AS LOCAL AND GLOBAL PHENOMENON
Imre Horváth, “You say gangsta, I say betyár“: The Technical and Ideological (Im)possibilities of Hungarian Rap
Radoš Mitrović Serbian Rap: Between Nationalism and Socialism
Marcell Kónya
The Interplay of Local, National and Global Networks of Meaning in the Work of Contemporary, Underground Hip Hop Musician Funktasztikus
11.30-13.30 / LUNCH BREAK
13.30-14.30 / KEYNOTE LECTURE
Ewa Mazierska UCLA
Researching Popular Music in Eastern Europe: The Change of Paradigm
14.45-16.15
SESSION 2 / SPACES OF THE UNDERGROUND
Łukasz Strzelczyk
Spaces of Music in Poland of the 1980s
Emília Barna
Networked Spaces of a Translocal Underground
Kinga Povedák
Alternative Music Subculture: Popular Music in the Hungarian Catholic Church during the Years of State Socialism / EE ROCK AND STATE POLITICS
Zsófia Réti
The Silver Age – Popular music Journalism in the Late Socialist Period of Hungary
Francesca Rolandi
Listening to Sanremo. The Italian Popular music and the Yugoslav Music Scene / MUSICAL FILM
Balázs Varga
Worlds That Never Were: Postsocialist Nostalgia and Recent Eastern European Musical Comedies
Hajnal Király
Sonorous Envelopes: Pop Music and Nostalgia in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema
16.30-18.00
SESSION 3 / POP/IDEOLOGY/NATIONALISM
Irena Šentevska
Popular Music, Cultural Politics and Ideology: the Strange Case of turbo-folk
Doru Pop
Integrating Rock Music in the Socialist Propaganda. A case study on Romania, from 1964 to 1989
Monika Borys
Bazaar Nationalism. Images of Disco Polo in 90s / STARS AND GENRES OF POPLAR MUSIC
Karaulic, Jovana
The Role Of Popular Culture In A State Spectacle―Case Study: Central Celebration Of The “Youth Day” In Belgrade, 1980-1987
Fanni Feldmann
From Flamboyant Trend-Setter to Paternalistic Conservative: The Case Study of Ákos as Eastern European Pop Star
Mariusz Gradowski
Rock and Roll styles and Genres in Poland (1957-1973) / POPULAR MUSIC, CINEMA AND NOSTALGIA
MárkZalán
Escape From the Present?
Anca Caramelea
Popular Music in New Romanian Cinema
Eszter Ureczky
Scores in Motion Picture: Nostalgia, Retro, and Cultural Memory in Balaton Method (Bálint Szimler, 2015)
19.30-21.00
MODEM / RECEPTION AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
THE DEBRECEN SCENE OF POPULAR MUSIC—PAST AND PRESENT
21.00-
MODEM / CONCERT
Day 2
TIME / ROOM 111 / ROOM 109 / LECTURE ROOM II.9.30-11.30
SESSION 4 / COLD WAR POLITICS – OBSTACLE FOR JAZZ OR MOTOR FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT?
Ádám Ignácz
Aesthetic and Compositional Debates on Popular Music in Hungary (1950-1956)
Katharina Weißenbacher
The Swiss Way of transporting American Jazz to the GDR
About Records Smuggling and the Background of Louis Armstrong’s Concert Tour
Rüdiger Ritter
Propaganda Coup or Cultural Exchange? Voice of America’s Jazz Radio Shows in State Socialist Radio Programs – the Example of Willis Conover’s Music with Friends for Poland and Hungary / MUSIC AND THE STATE
Xawery Stańczyk
Distinctive Ideas of Music Underground
Manuela Marin
TheSecuritate and Youth’s Musical Counter Cultures in Communist Romania
Klaudia Rachubińska
Whatever happened to the hero(in)es, or, the Rise and Fall of Polish FemaleArtists in the 1980s
Maroš Melichárek
National Symbolism and Myth in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian Military Songs from 1991-1995 / DISTRIBUTION OF UNOFFICIAL MUSICAL ARTEFACTS AMONG THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN SOCIETY IN THE 1970S AND 1980S
Adam Havlík, You Can Always Get What You Want! Unofficial Music Markets in the State-socialist Czechoslovakia
Jiří Andrs, From Eastern Bloc with Love. Bringing Western Music from the Eastern European Countries During the 1970s and 1980s
Martin Mejzr,“Folk guitar as a gun“. Political Dimension of Music in Late Socialism: the Case of Czechoslovak Singer and Poet Karel Kryl
Jonáš Chmátal
Rock This Town! Rise of the Rockabilly Subculture in Czechoslovakia During the 1980s.
11.30-13.00 / LUNCH BREAK
13.00-14.00 / KEYNOTE LECTURE
Ferenc Hammer, ELTE
Home-made Technologies in the DIY Popular Music Scenes in Socialist Hungary
14.15-15.45
SESSION 5 / ROCK AND RESISTANCE
Daniela Doboş
The Bloodied Christmas: The Romanian Rock of the Revolution
Bruce Williams
“Working Class Heroes”: Communist Albania’s John Lennon Protest
David Robb
Survival and the Metaphorical Language of GDR Rock / MEANINGS OF THE UNDERGROUND
Attila Benke,
Death (Metal) of Socialism: the Function of Galloping Coroners’ Music in Gábor Bódy’s Dog’s Night Song
Zsolt Győri
“Music Isn’t Music, Words Aren’t Words”: Underground Music/Underground Cinema
Piotr Fortuna
Patronized Counterculture. Entertainment and Polish Rock music of the 60s in Big beat