This may be of interest to colleagues working on music and the GDR...

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Title: Music in Divided Germany
Date: 9-11 September, 2011
Proposals: Abstracts of 300 words, due by email on 1 March 2011 at 5pm PST
Hosted by: The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley
Conference Organizers: Anicia Timberlake and Emily Richmond Pollock
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In the year 1945, Germany was split into two nations; the year 1989
saw them brought back together. Yet despite the political acts that
severed and then sutured them, the East and the West were never really
culturally disentangled, and even now remain in some ways warily
distinct. The complexity of musical and cultural life in the two
Germanys over these four decades yields a rich potential for dialogue
across disciplinary and methodological boundaries. Scholarly
discussion in this area is forced to contend with the fever pitch of
debates saturating this period, concerning such questions as the
proper relationship between artistic and political expression; the
values that inform high art, middlebrow, and popular cultures; the
legitimacy of modernism and the role of the academy; and the
relationship between contemporary politics and stylistic revolution,
retrenchment, and restoration. We aim to bring together an
international group of scholars working on music in either or both
East and West Germany to discuss these issues as well as the following
areas of particular relevance:

-  The social role of art and social constraints on art, including
musical life in particular cities or communities, the history of
institutions, education/academia, and arts policy.
- Music and media, including recording, radio, and print culture, as
well as arts journalism and criticism, musicology, and propaganda.
- Points of contact or collaboration between institutions, musicians,
and/or composers in the two Germanys as well as abroad.

The conference will feature a roundtable session with keynote position
papers by Amy Beal (University of California, Santa Cruz), Joy Calico
(Vanderbilt University), and Anne Shreffler (Harvard University).

Faculty and graduate student papers are welcome. The official language
of the conference is English. We regret that we will be unable to
reimburse travel expenses.

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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Senior Lecturer
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
http://web.me.com/jpehs/
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