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The Polish Music Center at USC’s Thornton School of Music invites submissions for “Sounds from Behind the Iron Curtain: Polish Music after World War II” – A Musicology and Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place April 6, 2013. We welcome participants from all disciplines interested in exploring any aspect of Polish music (defined as music of any genre and function produced in Poland and/or by Polish nationals) in the period of 1945 to the present. As the nature of the research material lends itself to interdisciplinary approaches and multi-media exploration, we especially encourage scholars making extensive use of digital technology in their research and presentation. Entirely digital presentations will be accommodated. Selected conference papers/presentations will be published online by the Polish Music Center following the event.
Suggested topics and research areas:
Post-war Modernism and its relationship to Folklore
Post-war Modernism and the musical legacy of Chopin (Szymanowski, Renaissance music, etc.)
Polish Jazz
'Warsaw Autumn' Contemporary Music Festivals
Polish Film Music
The Role of Music in Polish Theater
Music and Religion
Music and Memory
Music and War Trauma
Polish Rock (Punk, etc.)
Looking into the Orient
Music and Cold War Politics
Music and Democratic/Economic Change
The Revival of Klezmer Music
Polish Music in the Digital Age
Contributions are welcomed in the form of individual papers (20 minutes). Please send an abstract of up to 300 words to Ewelina Boczkowska at 2013polishmusicconference@gmail.com. All submissions must be received by Monday, December 31, 2012. Notification of acceptance will occur by January 15, 2013.
For more details, please visit http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/pmcevents/2013/2013conference.html
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