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).

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