MUSIC and POWER SYMPOSIUM
Music and Power Conference
Schedule
Lectures and panels will be held in
MacMillan Hall, Rm 212 unless otherwise noted
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Student Concert:
Art Songs of Post-Soviet Composers
12:00pm
Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts
Chamber Music Recital
featuring Miami University Faculty
5:00pm
Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts
Keynote Lecture
Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley
Two Serendipities
5:30-7:00pm
Souers Recital Hall, Center for Performing Arts
Friday, March 1, 2013
Music and Power Conference Panels
MacMillan Hall 212
Panel 1: Film and Popular Music
9:30-11:30am
Moderator: Karen Dawisha, Miami University
Gleb Tsipursky, Ohio State University at Newark
Young Jazz Enthusiasts and the Cultural Cold War in the Soviet Union, 1948-53
Polina Dimova, Oberlin College
A Soviet Fairy Tale: The Hero’s Reward in Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Peter Kupfer,
Southern Methodist University
The Soviet Musical Comedy: Ideology and (Musical) Entertainment in Negotiation
(with accompanying figures)
Robert Bird, University of Chicago
Occupy Orthodoxy: Pussy Riot on Liturgy and Spectacle
Discussant: Stephen Muir, University of Leeds
Keynote Lecture
12:30-2:00pm
James Loeffler,
University of Virginia
Promising Harmonies: The Aural Politics of the Inter-Ethnic Imagination
MacMillan Hall 212
Panel 2: Politics of Censorship
2:15-4:15pm
Moderator: Elizabeth Hoover, Miami University
Marina Frolova-Walker, Cambridge University Stalin’s Music Laureates: Myths and Realities
Andrew Burgard,
New York University
Zdenĕk Nejedlý: The Danger of a Powerful Musicologist?
Lisa Cooper Vest, Indiana University, Bloomington Power and Plagiarism: The Polish Composers’ Union as Arbiter between Individual Authorship and Collective Style in the early 1960s
Discussant: Patrick Zuk, Durham University
Student Poster Presentation
6:30pm, Hall Auditorium Lobby
Bruce Murray, Chair, Department of Music
Pre-Concert Lecture
7:15pm, Hall Auditorium
Miami University Symphony Orchestra
with the Chamber Singers & Collegiate Chorale
Gala Concert: Censorship and the Right of Expression
with Miami Faculty Mari Opatz-Muni, soloist; Molly Jones, winner of the 2012 Miami University Concerto Competition and Havighurst prize; and featuring Guest Artist Bin Huang, violinist, performing “Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto”
8:00pm, Hall Auditorium
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Panel 3: Censorship in Practice
9:30-11:30 am
Moderator: Venelin Ganev, Miami University
Patrick Zuk,
Durham University
Soviet Compositional Styles of the Stalinist Period in International Context: Towards a Reappraisal
Leah Goldman, University of Chicago
Negotiating History: Art, Authority and Iurii Shaporin’s 'Dekabristy'
Megan Rancier, Bowling Green State University,
‘The Qobyz is Just an Instrument, but the Soviet Government Saw it as a Threat’: Intersections Between Political Suppression, Musical Practices, and Kazakh National Identity
Discussant: Marina Frolova-Walker, Cambridge University
Panel 4: Musical Identities in Conflict
1:00-3:00pm
Moderator: Rad Borislavov, Miami University
Stephen Muir,
University of Leeds
Hasidism and Mitnagdism in the Russian Empire: the (mis)use of Jewish music in Polish-Lithuanian Russia
Rebecca Mitchell, Miami University
National or Imperial? The Politics of Musical Identity in late Imperial Russia
Elena Dubinets,
Vice President of Artistic Planning, Seattle Symphony and Artistic Advisor, The Seattle Chamber Players
“Other” Russianness as Hard Currency:
Post-imperial Russian Music Abroad
Discussant: Gleb Tsipursky, Ohio State University at Newark
Closing Dialogue
3:30-4:30pm
The Music and Power Conference and related musical performances are co-sponsored by the the Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies, the School for Creative Arts, the Department of Music, the Humanities Center, the Department of Political Science, the Department of History, the Posen Foundation, and the Office of the Provost
