CALL FOR PAPERS--RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES

[Alexandra Smith]

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

Russian and East European Music Study Group

CALL FOR PAPERS

RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES

One-Day Conference, to be held at the Faculty of Music, St. Aldates,
Oxford, on Wednesday 1 October 2008, in association with the Oxford
University Faculty of Music, the Bate Collection, and the European
Humanities Research Centre

The 2008 conference will be held in memory of Neil Edmunds (1966-2008),
author of The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement (Bern/New York/Oxford:
Peter Lang, 2000) and editor of Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and
Stalin.The Baton and Sickle (London/New York: RoutledgeCurzon: 2004)

Keynote speaker: theremin virtuoso and composer Lydia Kavina, who will give
a demonstration of the revolutionary electronic instrument invented by her
great-uncle Lev Termen in 1920.  As well as discussing the history of the
theremin, she will also discuss the political biography of its creator.
The conference will be followed by a ?Hands On, Hands Off? workshop at the
Bate Collection, in which participants will be invited to try out for
themselves different models of the theremin.  The day?s activities will
conclude with an evening theremin recital by Lydia Kavina at the Holywell
Music Room.

Proposals are invited for papers to be presented at the conference on the
work of such figures as Theremin, Obukhov, Schillinger, Gurdjieff,
Kandinsky, Kublin, Scriabin, Matiushin, Avraamov, Foregger, Radlov,
Roslavets, Mosolov, Barnoff-Rossine, Golyshef, and Lourie.

Please submit proposed title plus brief abstract by 30 May 2008 to
rosamund.bartlett at ehrc.ox.ac.uk  to whom any enquiries may also be
addressed.

Pauline Fairclough and Rosamund Bartlett

Convenors, BASEES Russian and East European Music Study Group



www.basees.org.uk/sgreem.shtml

http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/index.htm




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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604
e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk





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