Occupied! Popular music, capital, state and society
International conference
3rd and 4th June 2016
KUD France Prešeren, Karunova ulica 14, Ljubljana, Slovenia
In the times of privatization, regulation and bureaucratization, as well as the diminishing power of society in shrinking nation-states, the main problem regarding the activities related to music is who controls music.
Popular music is a contested field, occupied by many different agents, not only musicians and audiences. It is an integral part of existing (super)structures and power relations. Nation-states still define the basic social-economic environment of its production, reproduction and the development. Additionally, in the frameworks of transnational alliances, such as the European Union, common regulations not only shape popular music markets, but also define the basic activities and infrastructure in which it exists: from music schools and public music venues to private venues, distribution channels and legislation regarding copyright and media.
Program – timetable
FRIDAY, 3 JUNE
14:00 – 14:30
Registration / Opening
14:30 – 16:00
Rajko Muršič, Ana Hofman, Miha Kozorog, Martin Pogačar, Tanja Petrović, Urša Valič
Presentation of the project Engaged past: socialanthropological analysis of transformations of popular music in the area of former Yugoslavia
16:30 – 18:00
Srđan Atanasovski, Ana Petrov
Selling the tears: commodification of feelings in post-Yugoslav music market
Marko Zubak
Create digging in ex-Yugoslavia: challenging grand narratives of popular music
Edo Katanić
Did the Marshal die? Zabranjeno Pušenje and the Yugoslav state censorship
SATURDAY, 4 JUNE
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote lecture
Panayotis Panopoulos
The Caribbean in the Aegean: copyrighting place, Greek island folk songs and Greek world music
10:30 – 12:00
Christa Bruckner – Haring
Cuban jazz identity
Ičo Vidmar
Independent musicians, collective action and musicians’ union: the case of “Winter Jazzfest agreement” in New York City
André Rottgeri
The impact of cultural politics on Rock Alternatif and Rock Métis
12:30 – 14:00
Joanna Maurer
Rappers as prophets. Crypto – theology in rap music based on Slovak and Polish representatives
Rajko Muršič
Fear, music, and noise: on the power of music, free market and legislation in present-day Slovenia
Yoshe Watson
After the crash: reclaiming uncertainty in a neoliberal society
14:00 – 15:30 Lunch break
15:30 – 17:00
Nadia Molek
From the Julian Alps to the Pampa: transnational polka performances amond descendants of Slovenian exiles in Argentina
Santiago Niño Morales
Social song and record labels. Political opposition and music industry in Latin-America
Juan Esteban de Jager
Sikuri panpipe bands in Jujuy province, Argentina: military rhythms, cumbia and Marian processions
17:30 – 18:30
Petra Hamer
Popular music and civil society during the homeland war in Croatia
Vladislav Beronja
Form, ideology, and performance in contemporary turbo-folk
18:45 – 19:45
Final round table
Closing party: KUD France Prešeren
The Occupied! Popular music, capital, state and society conference is part of the project Engaged past: social-anthropological analysis of transformations of popular music in the area of former Yugoslavia. (Partners: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, funded by the Slovenian Research Agency)
Local organizers: Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and Institute of Cultural and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU In collaboration with German Society for Popular Music Studies GfPM
Email: musicoccupied@gmail.com
