Popular music is a contested field, occupied by many different agents, not only musicians and audiences. It is an integral part of existing (super)structures and power relations. Nation-states still define the basic social-economic environment of its production, reproduction and the development. Additionally, in the frameworks of transnational alliances, such as the European Union, common regulations not only shape popular music markets, but also define the basic activities and infrastructure in which it exists: from music schools and public music venues to private venues, distribution channels and legislation regarding copyright and media.

Program – timetable

SATURDAY, 4 JUNE

09:00 – 10:00

Keynote lecture Panayotis Panopoulos The Caribbean in the Aegean: copyrighting place, Greek island folk songs and Greek world music

10:30 – 12:00

Christa Bruckner – Haring Cuban jazz identity

Ičo Vidmar Independent musicians, collective action and musicians’ union: the case of “Winter Jazzfest agreement” in New York City

André Rottgeri The impact of cultural politics on Rock Alternatif and Rock Métis 12:30 – 14:00

Joanna Maurer Rappers as prophets. Crypto – theology in rap music based on Slovak and Polish representatives

Rajko Muršič Fear, music, and noise: on the power of music, free market and legislation in present-day Slovenia

Yoshe Watson After the crash: reclaiming uncertainty in a neoliberal society

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch break

15:30 – 17:00

Nadia Molek From the Julian Alps to the Pampa: transnational polka performances amond descendants of Slovenian exiles in Argentina

Santiago Niño Morales Social song and record labels. Political opposition and music industry in Latin-America

Juan Esteban de Jager Sikuri panpipe bands in Jujuy province, Argentina: military rhythms, cumbia and Marian processions

17:30 – 18:30

Petra Hamer Popular music and civil society during the homeland war in Croatia Vladislav Beronja Form, ideology, and performance in contemporary turbo-folk

18:45 – 19:45

Final round table Closing party: KUD France Prešeren

The Occupied! Popular music, capital, state and society conference is part of the project Engaged past: social-anthropological analysis of transformations of popular music in the area of former Yugoslavia. (Partners: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, funded by the Slovenian Research Agency)

Scientific Committee: Rajko Muršič, Alenka Barber - Keršovan, Ana Hofman, Tanja Petrović, Martin Pogačar, Miha Kozorog, Urša Valič

Local organizers: Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and Institute of Cultural and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU In collaboration with German Society for Popular Music Studies GfPM

For more information, see:
https://transyuformator.wordpress.com/occupied-popular-music-capital-state-and-society/

Email: musicoccupied@gmail.com