Seminar “Popular music – research and resources in the Nordic-Baltic region”
Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts and TU Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies invite you to participate in upcoming seminar “Popular music – research and resources in the Nordic-Baltic region”.
April 26, 2018 Tallinn University
Room S-236
11-12 registration, coffee
12.00-12.15 Opening.
12.15-13.00 Keynote presentation: Dario Martinelli (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)
Playing independence: Political importance and soft power of the Singing Revolution
13.00-14-00 Lunch. Astra building, Caffe ground floor.
14.00-15.30 Session I Chair..
Aki Luoto (University of Tampere)
Comparing Band Aid and Finnish Apua!Orkesteri as political movements
Michael Rauhut (University of Agder)
Popular music and socialist secrecy: The challenges of archival research
Kim Emil Ramstedt (University of Turku)
Subject TBA
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Session II Chair…
Heli Reimann and Egge Kulbok-Lattik (Tallinn University)
‘Vsjo byla tak, no nje tak vsjo byla’: paradoxes of Soviet era (popular music) culture
Aimar Ventsel (University of Tartu)
Can we speak about the culture industry in Soviet Union: Estonian estrada in Soviet Union
Berk Vaher (University of Tartu)
Headphone experience in the 1980s/early 1990s Estonia
Tõnis Kahu (Tallinn University)
The contextualization of “progressive rock” in Soviet Estonia
18.15 Reception
TLU Mare building, Atrium, 3rd floor
The seminar language is English.
Participation is free. Registration is obligatory.
Please register here. Registration deadline April 11, 2018
For more information:
Estonian Music Library Association www.luts.ee/emky
Kaie Viigipuu-Kreintaal kaie.viigipuu@tln.lib.ee
Finnish Music Library Association http://www.musiikkikirjastot.fi/musiikkipalvelut/suomen-musiikkikirjastoyhdistys/#.WjJhhFWWaUk
Jaakko Tuohiniemi jaakko.tuohiniemi@helsinki.fi
IAPSM Norden https://iaspmnorden.wordpress.com/
Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso juho.kaitajärvi@gmail.com
Tallinn University School of Humanities http://www.tlu.ee/en/School-of-Humanities
This seminar is organized in collaboration with Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts and TU Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, supported by the ASTRA project of Tallinn University– TU TEE (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).