Dear colleagues,
The Institute of Musicology and the Department ofArts of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in cooperation with theIstanbul University State Conservatory, are organizing an internationalscientific conference “Music and Dance on the East–West Axis:Corelations and Mobilities”, which will be held from September 4thto 6th, 2023, entirely in English language, at the Serbian Academyof Sciences and Arts, and virtually (a live broadcast of all lectures from the GrandHall SASA will be publicly available). Ethnomusicologists, ethnochoreologists,musicologists, historians and anthropologists from Serbia, Türkiye (especiallywithin the framework of bilateral scientific cooperation on the TRackeRSproject), Austria, Germany, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, the United States ofAmerica, Australia, France and the United Kingdom will participate in themeeting. The program can be followed via live streaming:
https://www.sanu.ac.rs/en/live-streaming/.
Relying on previous studies of the music and danceof the Balkans (especially those inspired by the work of Edward Said and MariaTodorova), on this occasion, a rethinking of the East would beencouraged, with a special focus on establishing common heritage, practices andtendencies in music and dance – from new applications and interpretations ofthe concepts of Orientalism and postcolonialism to the presentation of theresults of a structural analysis of presumed Eastern influences in a broadersense.
The keynote lecture will be given by Jim Samson, aleading authority in global musicology, who in the previous decade devoted hismajor writings to the musical practices in the Balkans and the Black Seacountries. On this occasion, he will talk about the symbolic geography of East andWest, starting from musical and critical theory. The folk music ofVranje, the performance of the Roma in Serbia, the ways of presenting “Turkish”in the music of South Slavic countries, the oscillation between East and Westusing examples from Serbian artistic and popular music, the problematization ofthe Ottoman heritage, music and dance in the Western diasporas, and newtheoretical interpretations inspired by the theme of the symposium will beexplained from different aspects.
During the meeting, recent editions of theInstitute of Musicology SASA will be presented, and all participants will havea working visit to the National Ensemble “Kolo”.
As part of the accompanying program of thesymposium, a concert “Soundscapes of Serbian Cultural Space" will beorganized in cooperation with the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Facultyof Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade – in the Ethnographic Museum onSeptember 4th, 2023, starting at 19 h, the ensemble"Tradicija Viva" will perform, and admission will be free.
Please find the program below.
Kind regards!
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Location: Serbian Academy of Sciences andArts (Knez Mihailova 35, Belgrade, Serbia)
September 4th, 2023
10:00 SASA 2nd floor – Registration
11:00 Grand Hall SASA
Opening Ceremony (Chair: KatarinaTomašević)
Jelena Jovanović (Department of Arts SASA, Serbia)
Katarina Tomašević (Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia)
11:30 Keynote Lecture
Jim Samson (British Academy, United Kingdom): Betwixt and Between:The Symbolic Geographies of East and West
13:00 SASA Club – Opening Cocktail
14:30 Grand Hall SASA
Session 1 (Chair: Jelena Jovanović)
Katarina Tomašević (Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia): Revisiting the City of Vranje and Its Music Heritage: The Crossroads of Various East–West Traditions and Practices
Miloš Rašić (Institute of Ethnography SASA, Serbia): Staging the Orient:Transposition and Orientalisation of Traditional Dances from Vranje
Abdullah Akat (Istanbul University StateConservatory, Türkiye): The Role and Influence of RomaMusicians on the Turkish–Serbian Musical Interactions inVranje, Serbia
16:00 SASA 2nd floor – Coffee Break
16:30 Grand Hall SASA
Session 2 (Chair: Marija Dumnić Vilotijević)
Carol Silverman (University of Oregon, United States of America): ConfoundingEast and West: Macedonian Romani Mobilities and Transnational Music (online)
Mehmet Öcal Özbilgin (Ege University State TurkishMusic Conservatory, Türkiye): Belly and Čoček Dances in Türkiye and Serbia Traditional Dance Culture
Ivana Medić (Institute ofMusicology SASA, Serbia): Ljubiša Stojanović Louis and the Genesis of the Gypsy Jazz
19:00–20:00 Concert at the EthnographicMuseum (not included in the live stream)
Soundscapes of Serbian Cultural Space
Program: Sanja Ranković, Borisav Miljković (Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)
Performance: “Tradicija Viva” (Department of Ethnomusicology of the Faculty of Music of the Universityof Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)
September 5th, 2023
09:30 Grand Hall SASA
Session 3 (Chair: Abdullah Akat)
Ventsislav Dimov (Sofia University “St.Kliment Ohridski” – Institute of Art Studies BAS, Bulgaria), Lozanka Peycheva (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with theEthnographic Museum BAS – Academy of Music, Dance and FineArts “Prof. Asen Diamandiev”, Bulgaria): Oriental Images in Recorded Music from Bulgaria in the First Half of theXXCentury
Rumiana Margaritova (Institute of Art Studies BAS, Bulgaria): The Socialist Bulgarian “Estrada Music” for the Bulgarian Turks: Cultural, Social and Political Aspects
Marija Dumnić Vilotijević (Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia): Representations of ‘Turkishness’ in Popular Folk Music in Serbia in the XX Century: Channeling the East in a Western Way
11:00 SASA 2nd floor – Coffee Break
12:00–13:00 National Ensemble “Kolo”(not included in the live stream)
Professional Visit
16:30 Grand Hall SASA
Session 4 (Chair: Jim Samson)
Biljana Milanović (Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia): Music in the Mapping ofYugoslav Ethnogenesis: Vladimir Dvorniković’s Narratives beyond the East–West Axis
Luisa Klaus (European Center for Jewish Music Studies – Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover,Germany): “…keinerlei ʻWeltgeltung’ wie etwa eine Beethovensche Symphonie” – Edith Gerson-Kiwi’s Comparative Study Regarding the ʻOriental’ Musician
Sonja Zdravkova Djeparoska (Faculty ofMusic of “St. Cyril and Methodius” University, North Macedonia): A Balkan View of the Orient in theWorks of Macedonian Authors
Nevena Stanić Kovačević (Northwestern University, United States of America): TransculturalEntextualization of Kolo and Čoček Dances in the Music of Serbian Émigré Composers Nataša Bogojević and Milica Paranosić
16:30 Hall 2 SASA
Session 5 (Chair: Danka Lajić Mihajlović)
Zdravko Ranisavljević (Faculty of Music of the University of Arts, Serbia): A la Turca: RepresentativeICH element of the Bosniaks’ Dance Tradition in Serbia
Marko Kölbl (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria):Pradomovina Revisited: Musical Ancestry withinthe Croatian Minority in Austria
Katarina Nikolić (Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia): KUD “Bánát”: Folk Dance Group as the Vehicle of Safeguarding the Serbian CulturalHeritage in the Context of Diaspora
Sanja Ranković (Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia): TraditionalSinging in Associations of the Serbian Diaspora in North America and WesternEurope
September 6th, 2023
10:00 Grand Hall SASA
Session 6 (Chair: Marija Maglov)
Danka Lajić Mihajlović (Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia): Transcending the East-West Division: Brass Bands from Serbia between Folk Music Practice andMusic Industry
Günseli Naz Ferel (Independent Researcher, Türkiye): Transforming Feelings and Meanings of The Night Out: Experiences ofElectronic Dance Music in Times of Crisis in Istanbul, Türkiye
Gay Breyley (Monash University, Australia): Shifting Parallels: Alamut – Historic Symphony, by “Laibach”, Samimi Mofakham, Rowshan and Jamnik
Farrokh Vahabzadeh (Université Côted’Azur Nice, France): An Interdisciplinary Approach to Musical Body (online)
10:00 Hall 2 SASA
Session 7 (Chair: Belma Oğul)
Ayhan Erol (Dokuz Eylul University,Türkiye): Ritual Dance, Migration andTranslocality: The Alevi Semah
Ana Stojanoska (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, North Macedonia): TheRhythm of Infinity: Dervishes in Macedonian Theater Performances
Mehtap Demir Güven (Istanbul University State Conservatory, Türkiye): StrategicOrientalism: A Henna Night in Novi Pazar
Cenk Güray,Neşe Çelebi, Güzin Tirkeş, Duygu Güvener, Şule Yıldız, Alişan Budak, Ekin IlgınDemirhan (Türkiye): Reenvisioning and RestructuringAdakale’s Hidden Songs (online)
12:00 SASA 1st floor – Coffee Break
12:30 Hall 2 SASA
Session 8 (Chair: Marko Kölbl)
Şahin Yaldız (Graduate Centre for Study of Culture of Justus Liebig University,Germany): Folk Dance, (Post)Memory, Imagined Homeland in the Turkish Diaspora of Germany: The Case of Egetanz Ulm and Ravensburg
Angelika Hudler (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria): Musical Ethnicity and (Trans)LocalIdentity: Serbian Roma Violin in Vienna
Nina Wasilewa Zaneshev (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria): Bulgarian Choir Singing in Vienna
16:00 Hall 2 SASA
Session 9 (Chair: Ivana Medić)
Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu (Faculty of Cultural Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Münich, Germany): Ottoman Background of CulturalInteraction in the Balkans: An Historical Analysis
Filip Petkovski (Independent Researcher, North Macedonia): Balkanizingthe Orient: Reversing Orientalism’s Gaze
Belma Oğul (Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, Türkiye): New Materialist Approach toEast-West Distinction: South–Eastern Musics
16:30 SASA 1st floor – Coffee Break
17:00 Hall 2 SASA
Closing Discussion
20:00 Conference Dinner
---Dr Marija Dumnić VilotijevićEtnomuzikolog / EthnomusicologistBeograd / Belgradehttps://
sacu.academia.edu/MarijaDumnicVilotijevicViši naučni saradnik u Muzikološkom institutu SANUSenior Research Associate at the Institute of Musicology SASA
Chair of IASA Research Archives SectionVice-Chair of ICTM SG for Audiovisual Ethnomusicology
Звуци носталгије: Историја староградске музике у Србији, Београд: Чигоја штампа — Музиколошки институт САНУ, 2019
http://www.chigoja.co.rs/zvuci_nostalgije_marija_dumnic_vilotijevic (awarded by the Institute of Ethnography SASA for the results of ethnological and anthropological research published in 2018 and 2019)
Contemporary Popular Music Studies (ed. with Ivana Medić), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658252526Звучна архивистика у Музиколошком институту САНУ, Ниш: Електронски факултет, 2018
http://ciitlab.elfak.ni.ac.rs/elektronskepublikacije/dumnic.html