Reminder: Music, Marxism and the Frankfurt School conference deadline
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The international conference
“Music, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School” will give sustained
attention to the rich and fascinating interaction between music and the
socio-cultural and aesthetic theory of Marxist writers in the
Austro-German sphere, including members of the Frankfurt School. With
its focus firmly fixed on music as the object of reflection and
contemplation, the conference seeks to investigate how these thinkers
conceived of and responded to music. It aims to probe the manner in
which these thinkers illuminated the philosophical, political, and
metaphysical aspects of musical material. Moving out concentrically from
this central point, the conference will explore the influence these
writers exerted on composers and musicians of their own time and of
subsequent generations. It will also examine the influence of Marxist
criticism and the Frankfurt School on musical discourse since the
mid-twentieth century. In so doing, it aims to trace the intellectual
debt many of these writers owe to the German intellectual tradition from
Kant to their own time. The Keynote Address will be delivered by Professor Max Paddison of Durham University.
This international conference is hosted by the School of Music, University College Dublin as part of the celebration of the centenary of music at UCD. It is sponsored and co-funded by the FP7 Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission, and is carried out in association with the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and the Department of Music, University of California, Irvine.
For more information, please visit Music, Marxism and the Frankfurt School (http://www.musicandthefrankfurtschool.com/) or our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/musicmarxismandthefrankfurtschool
Amy Bauer
University of California, Irvine