The Cold War and American Music, 1945-2000
Internationale Tagung unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch (LMU), Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (DHI, Washington DC), Prof. Michael Kimmage (Catholic University, Washington).
22.06.2012 – 23.06.2012
The Cold War and its impact on American music, at home and abroad, are the organizing motifs of this international conference. It will explore proliferating genres and their respective fusions within American music – from jazz to R&B, to rock-and-roll, to folk and classical music – across a geographic and historical continuum. It will examine the relationship between regionalism and urbanism, on the one hand, and genre hierarchies on the other. Given that music was a pivotal aspect of American Cold War diplomacy, this conference will chart the ways in which American music was produced, received and assimilated in Europe, including the Soviet Union, with particular attention paid to Germany.
Die Veranstaltung findet statt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Historischen Institut, Washington DC, dem Lasky Center für Transatlantische Studien an der LMU und der Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
Teilnehmer sind u.a.: Amy Beal (Santa Cruz), Penny von Eschen, (Ann Arbor), Petra Goedde (Philadelphia), Uta Poiger (Boston), Helle Porsdam (Kopenhagen), Ernest Suarez (Washington), Matthias Tischer (Hochschule Neubrandenburg).
Zeitplan:
Friday (June 22, 2012)
9: 15: introduction
9:30: Places I: Western Europe, chair: Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen)
Berndt Ostendorf (LMU): “Willis Conover’s Jazz Hour at the Voice of America, 1955-1996: From the Cold War to the Cool War”
Celeste Day Moore (University of Chicago): “Le jazz ouvre toutes les portes”: Sim Copans and the U.S. Information Service in France, 1954-1964”
George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam): “Jazz, Transatlantic Satire, and the Cold War”
11:15-11:45: coffee break
11:45: Places II: Germany, chair: Wolfgang Rathert (LMU)
Uta Poiger (Northeastern University): “American Jazz and Race in Cold War Germany”
Amy Beal (University of California, Santa Cruz): “Carla Bley’s German Jazz Trophy: Reflections on the Legacy of Joachim Ernst Berendt and American Free Jazz”
Martin Lücke (Makromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation): “The Cold War in Music: The Soundtrack of the 80s”
13:15-14:30: lunch
14:30: Places III: Eastern Europe, chair: Christof Mauch (LMU)
Christian Schmidt-Rost (Free University of Berlin): “Raising the Curtain: Jazz Festivals as Translational Spaces of Communication in the Cold War Era”
Dean Vuletic (European University Institute): “Jazz Diplomacy in Yugoslavia”
Rüdiger Ritter (University of Bremen): “Broadcasting Jazz into the Eastern Bloc - Cold War Weapon or Cultural Exchange? The Example of Willis Conover”
17:00: keynote
Reinhold Wagnleitner (University of Salzburg): “Jazz, the Classical Music of Globalization”
Saturday (June 23, 2012)
10:00: Places IV: The United States, chair: Petra Goedde (Temple University)
David Monod (Wilfrid Laurier University): “Wool Sweater Blues: Rumaging in the Delete Bin of Cold War American History”
Michelle Engert (LMU): “Red Stripes on the American Flag! Bob Dylan and the Cold War”
Ernest Suarez (The Catholic University of America): “Myth-Making, Personae and Performance: The Poetry of Rock during the Cold War”
11:45: lunch
13:00: Narratives, chair: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (GHI)
Penny von Eschen (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): “Di Eagle and Di Bear: Periodizing the Cold War through Music”
Michael Kimmage (The Catholic University of America): “Tom Lehrer and the Power of Cold War (Musical) Comedy”
Matthias Tischer (University of Neu Brandenburg): “What Was the Cold War Musically”
15:00 concluding discussion
16:00: conclusion
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