Sibelius Academy proudly presents: Radical Music History Symposium
at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland, Dec 8–9, 2011
Knowledge concerning past music and musical life should be supported by critical scholarly work. Unfortunately, the type of knowledge transmission taking place in music universities, musicology departments, conservatories, music classes in colleges and schools, or private studios today is often canonized and taken for granted. Radical research, however, leads us to the roots of the formation of the canon (radical, from Latin radicalis, "of or having roots").
The Radical music history symposium, organised by the Sibelius Academy, aims to open up new, critical, and even revolutionary political perspectives in the research field of music history, including all musical genres, Western and non-Western musical traditions and various forms of music education. In this symposium, we not only abandon the notion of music history being ‘objective' but would also like to enhance research perspectives through active social engagement, as well as critical, political and ethical stances combined with rigorous scholarship.
We have invited papers dealing with music history from different perspectives, including:
- The revival and revitalization of forgotten music
- Music taken off its pedestal
- Music and censorship
- The disappeared and the silenced in the musical canon
- Music of the establishment and the oppressed
- Music as an instrument of power
- Popular, unpopular or forbidden sounds
- Music education as indoctrination
- Music of the (neo)colonizers and the (neo)colonized
In addition to individual papers (20 min), we have encouraged participants to consider collaborative projects and shared symposia or panel sessions (1 hour).
Organizing committee
- Vesa Kurkela
- Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam
- Lauri Väkevä
- Heidi Westerlund
Conference secretary/info
Joonas Keskinen, email: joonas.keskinen(at)uta.fi
Registration & symposium fee
There is no symposium fee. The symposium is free of charge for everyone. However, if you wish to participate, we ask you kindly to register to the symposium secretary Mr. Joonas Keskinen, joonas.keskinen(at)uta.fi. Registered participants will receive more detailed information on the symposium.
Conference dinner party
The conference dinner party will be held at the restaurant called Ravintola Piano (Rauhankatu 15) on Thursday 8.12. starting at 7 PM.
The menu will be top quality including a selection of starters, main dish (meat/vegetarian option), dessert and drinks (beer/wine/soft drinks). Duo Karoliina Kantelinen & Ilkka Heinonen will be responsible for the musical program of the evening. They'll be exploring the symposium's theme "The revival and revitalization of forgotten music"
in their music, performing ancient Finnish music in modern ways. More info on their music can be found from Kantelinen's webpage www.karoliinakantelinen.fi.
The symposium dinner costs 60 euros / per person.
Register to the dinner by e-mailing the symposium secretary no later than the end of November. If you have any special diet / restrictions (eq. vegetarian diet), please let him know.
Radical Music History Symposium
December 8th and 9th 2011 in Helsinki, Finland
Symposium is organized by Sibelius Academy and the Finnish Musicological Society and will be held in three different locations in the centre of Helsinki:
- House of Science and Letters (HSL), Kirkkokatu 6
- Sibelius Academy T House, Töölönkatu 28
- Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A
Program
Thursday Dec 8, 2011
8.30–10.30 AM Registration Coffee, Tea and Biscuits @ HSL, Lobby
10.30–11 AM Welcome and info @ HSL, Auditorium
11–12 AM Keynote I, Derek B Scott (University of Leeds, UK), Occidentalism and Auto-Orientalism in Music @ HSL, Auditorium
12 AM–1.30 PM Lunch
1.30–3.30 PM Sessions Ia, Ib, Ic @ HSL
Session Ia: Popular music in Eastern Europe
Pennanen, Risto Pekka: Colonial, forgotten, silenced – Popular music in Habsburg Bosnia and the canon of Bosnian music history
Grabarchuk, Alexandra: Semiotic Pandemonium: An Exploration of the Soviet Prog Rock Aesthetic
Zhabeva Papazova, Julijana: Alternative/rock music in Yugoslavia in the 80's
Session Ib: Cold War perspectives
Reiman, Heli: ´Silenced choruses´: Shifting paradigms of Estonian jazz during Late-Stalinism
Veenre, Anu: One, two or more Estonian musics in the 1970's and 1980's
Pace, Ian: The Cold War in Germany as Ideological Weapon for Anti-Modernists
Session Ic: New foci on the 19th Century music history
Sivuoja, Anne: Salome's long dance with Lord Chamberlain
Murtomäki, Veijo: Bohemian musicians at side-track in the musical historiography of the "Viennese Classicism"
Kurkela, Vesa: Robert Kajanus: serious or popular? Deconstructing orchestral repertoire in late-19th-century Helsinki
3.30–5.30 PM Sessions IIa, IIb, IIc @ HSL
Session IIa: Music history in the flesh
Järviö, Päivi: Embodied music history – The living body as the locus of studying Early Music and its performing practices
Kennaway, George: ‘Do as some said, or as most did? — a Foucauldian experiment with 19th-century HIP'
Ervin, Jarek: It's Better than Pleasure, It Hurts More than Pain: "No Wave" and the Subversion of Jouissance
Session IIb: Festivities and festivals
Atanasovski, Srdjan: Producing Serbian National Territory: Music in Festivities and Pilgrimages
Tyrväinen, Helena: Paris – St. Petersburg – Helsinki: Music, Identity Construction and Triangular Relations from the "Franco-Russian Festivities" to Finnish Independence
Rantanen, Saijaleena: Emergence and Influence of Music Festivals in Finland in the Late 19th Century
Session IIc: Technology as medium
Kilpiö, Kaarina: Disrespecting The Canon: c-cassette users look back on their new-found power
MacKinnon, Jason Lee: A Perversion of the Unfamiliar: An Unfortunate History of the Theremin
Mantere, Markus: Deconstruction of the First Canon in the Research of Finnish Musicology
5.30–7 PM Time out
7–10 PM Conference dinner and party @ Ravintola Piano, Rauhankatu 15
The menu will be top quality, including a selection of starters, main dish (meat/vegetarian option), dessert and drinks (beer/wine/soft drinks). Duo Karoliina Kantelinen & Ilkka Heinonen will be responsible for the musical program of the evening. They'll be exploring one of the symposium's themes The revival and revitalization of forgotten music in their music, performing ancient Finnish music in modern ways. More info on their music can be found from Kantelinen's webpage www.karoliinakantelinen.fi.
Friday Dec 9, 2011
8–9 AM Morning coffee @ Sibelius Academy T House, 6th floor lobby
9–10 AM Keynote II, Jann Pasler (University of California, San Diego, USA), The Race Question and the Colonial Implications of Early Ethnomusicology in the French empire, 1860–1930s @ T House, Auditorium
10–11 AM Keynote III, Lauri Väkevä (Sibelius Academy, Finland), Music for all? A brief history of injustice in Finnish music education @ T House, Auditorium
11 AM–12.30 PM Lunch
12.30 AM–2.30 PM Sessions IIIa, IIIb, IIIc @ Helsinki Music Centre
Session IIIa: Beyond folklore
Heikkinen, Olli: Textual Strategies in Collecting Folk Songs in Finland
Mannermaa, Kristiina & Rainio, Riitta: Reconstructing the soundscape of the Ajvide Neolithic settlement and burial site (Gotland, Sweden)
Loges, Natasha: Brahms's folksong arrangements: a truly ‘popular' music
Session IIIb: Spanish music history
Gan Quesada, Germán: Francisco De Goya's Los Desastres de la Guerra in Spanish Contemporary Music
Pérez Zalduondo, Gemma: Militarized music: Propaganda, national identity, and musical activity in cities occupied by the Francoist army during the Spanish Civil War (January 1938 to April 1939).
Session IIIc: Beyond modernism
Cloag, Kenneth: The Postmodern Canon
Barham, Jeremy: Improper Historiography: Mahler, the Rhizome and Economies of Proliferation
Kärjä, Antti-Ville: 'N_songs' in Finland
2.30 PM–4.30 PM Sessions IVb, IVc @ Helsinki Music Centre
Session IVb: Radical perspectives on music historiography
Hicks, Jonathan: Towards a radical historical geography of music: the case of itinerant street musicians in latenineteenth-century Paris
Brusila, Johannes: How radical is radical? The critical revaluation of music history from a Finland-Swedish minority perspective
Broman-Kananen, Ulla-Britta: Beyond the national gaze: Opera at the Swedish theatre in 1870s Helsinki
Session IVc: Readings in the history of music education & Mediating modernism
Stefanou, Danae & Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis: Muted processes: revisiting experimental music practices in music historiography and music education
Ketzt-Welzel, Alexandra: How musical is the devil? A critical reading of Thomas Mann's novel "Dr. Faustus" and its implications for music and music education
Hickmott , Sarah: Schoenberg as Hungerkünstler: (Re)presenting Starvation and Abjection in 12-tone Music
4.30–5 PM Coffee
5–7 PM Sessions Va, Vb @ Helsinki Music Centre
Session Va: Localizing music history
Lodge, Martin: New Zealand: a new view of multi-stranded music history in a new land
Fornaro Bordolli, Marita: Uruguayan popular music in the first decade of the 21st century: research and teaching in regards to situations of democracy and dictatorship
Petrozzi, Clara: Western art music history from a Peruvian point of view
Session Vb: Musical biography
Wiley, Christopher: Musical Biography and the Myth of the Muse
Knowles, Joseph: Gesualdo, Composer of the 20th Century?
Hamilton, Katherine: Love songs from Switzerland: Hans Huber's vocal ensembles in context
7–7.30 PM Closing session @ Helsinki Music Centre
For more information you may contact the conference secretary
Mr. Joonas Keskinen
joonas.keskinen(at)uta.fi
+358 40 589 6601
Links
Sibelius Academy
www.siba.fi
Helsinki Music Centre
www.musiikkitalo.fi/web/en
House of Science and Letters (in Finnish)
www.tieteidentalo.fi
Helsinki-hotels
www.helsinki-hotels.net
Eat.fi (for restaurants)
eat.fi/en
