One-Day International Conference
MUSIC HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: REFLECTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES
hosted by the ERNST BLOCH CENTRE FOR GERMAN THOUGHT at the Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Friday, 13 April 2018
at the Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Booking now open
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Convenors: Jeremy Coleman (Aberdeen/IMLR) and Johan Siebers (Middlesex/IMLR)
Programme
8.45 Registration
9.15 Welcome and introduction
9.30 Session 1: Blochian Perspectives
Beth M. Snyder (University of Surrey): Why Musical Creativity Matters: Marx, Bloch, and a Non-Hedonic Theory of Artistic Value
Naomi Woo (University of Cambridge): The Role of Performance in the Musical Philosophy of Ernst Bloch
Ben Earle (University of Birmingham): Music and Utopia in Fascist Italy
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Session 2: Re-Evaluating Marx on Labour and Commodity: 19th-Century Case Studies
Charlie Shrader (University of Pennsylvania): ‘The labor of the madman’: Marx and the Charlatan Keyboardist
Peter Mondelli (University of North Texas): Rethinking Alienation through Music in Benjamin’s Paris
12.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Session 3: Myth and Ideology in the History of Opera
Emily X. X. Tan (University of Oxford): Nature, Alienation, and ‘Ahistorical’ Transcendence in Richard Strauss’s Daphne (1938)
Nicholas Till (University of Sussex): The Origins of Opera and the Politics of Early Modernity
15.00 Tea
15.30 Session 4: Musical Production after Modernity
Noah Zeldin (University of Chicago): Towards a Socialist Production of Music: Hanns Eisler and Cornelius Cardew
James Davis (University of Birmingham): Thomas Adès’s Arcadiana and Postmodernity
16.30 Break
16.45 Keynote Lecture
Benjamin Korstvedt (Clark University): Bloch, Music, and Historical Materialism: Why Now and Why for the Future?
17.45 Concluding Remarks / Roundtable Discussion
18.15 Wine Reception
19.15 Conference Dinner (optional, at own expense at a local restaurant)
This event is sponsored by the Coffin Trust of the University of London
Advance registration essential ٠ Attendance: £15 (standard); £10 (students/unwaged)
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Institute of Modern Languages Research
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room 239, Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966
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