UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS IN MUSIC AND MEDIA OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE CIRCUM 1989 (MAY 2), COLUMBIA

[Alan Timberlake]

We welcome you to (free and open):

Utopias and Dystopias in Music and Media of East Central Europe Circum 1989

May 2, 2014 (Hamilton Hall 602, Columbia University, 9:15am-5:15pm)

After the chaos of World War II, East Central Europe experienced the
imposition of a (corroded) utopian view of mankind and then its
disintegration into dystopia, culminating in an invincible popular revolt
symbolized by the toppling of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.  The Fall
of the Wall was accompanied by a new utopian dream of freedom of
expression, political democracy, integration with the world, benign
capitalism and consumer paradise; this also quickly devolved into dystopia.
Twenty-five years later, this workshop examines how music and media reflect
the tensions and representations of the years on both sides of the Fall of
the Wall.



*Dystopias of Media  9:15-11:45*



Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (Columbia)
(leyla.amzi at gmail.com)

Ottomania:  Turkish TV Soaps
and Cultural Interaction Outside the Bubble

Mitja Velikonja  (Ljubljana; Columbia)
(Mitja.Velikonja at fdv.uni-lj.si )
(mv2356 at columbia.edu)

Rock'n'Retro:
The New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Slovenian Popular Music

Maria Lechtarova (Columbia)
maria.lechtarova at gmail.com

Consuming Vigilance:
A Ritual Purification in Russian Reality Television

Snježana Milivojević (Belgrade)
(snjmil at hotmail.com )

Freedom and Commercialism:  Tabloid Media and Tabloid Politics in South
Eastern Europe

*Lunch  11:45-1*



*Dystopias of Music 1-4:30*



Madigan Fichter (NYU)
(maf413 at nyu.edu )

Balkan Beats:  Counterculture and Rock 'n' Roll in Bucharest, Belgrade, and
Zagreb, 1965-1975

Brigita Sebald (UCLA)
(brigita.sebald at gmail.com )

Imagining Music History:   Georgian Narratives of the Rock Music Canon and
the Politics of Inclusion

Elisa Rose (Columbia)
(ecr2145 at columbia.edu )

Could You Live in Africa?:
Punk and its Posts in Poland's Eighties

*Break  2:15-2:30*



Martha Sprigge (U Michigan)
(spriggem at umich.edu )-

Reclaiming History:
East German Composers after Reunification

Sophie Pinkham (Columbia)
(scp2131 at columbia.edu)

Roma/Balkan Music and
Post-Socialist Nostalgia in Ukraine

Andrea Bohlman (UNC) (abohlman at email.unc.edu)

The Call to Dissent:  Music, Critique, and its Publics
in East Central Europe

*Break  3:45-4*



*Retrospective 4-5:15*



Lauren Ninoshvili (NYU)
(ln31 at nyu.edu )

Discussant

Julia Sonnevend (U Michigan)
(sonneven at umich.edu )

Symbol of Hope:
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Becomes a Global Myth

Sponsors:  East Central European Center, Harriman Institute & Balassi
Foundation
Organizers:  Alan Timberlake (at2205 at columbai.edu), Tsveta Petrova (
tsveta_petrova at mac.com)

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