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International Conference Programme
Thursday 29 March 2012
9:45–10.00
Opening of the Conference
10.00–11.30
Session 1: Musical Iconography and Propaganda in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period – in Search of a Paradigm
Chair: Florence Gétreau (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris)
- Gabriela Currie (University of Minnesota, Twin City)
The Familiar ‘Other’: Crusader Propaganda and Music Iconography in Manuscripts of the Outremer
- Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek (University of Warsaw)
Donna Musica as a Figure in Cultural Memory. Allegories of Music in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia
- Ivan S. Vukčević (University of Montenegro, Podgorica)
The Angelic Polyphony in Kotor Churches. Echoes of the Council of Trent in the Art of the Bay of Kotor
11.30–12.00
Coffee Break
12.00−13.30
Session 2: Seventeenth-Century Arts in the Service of the French and Francophile Courts
Chair: Gabriela Currie (University of Minnesota, Twin City)
- Cristina Santarelli (Institute for Musical Heritage in Piedmont, Turin)
‘Soft’ Anti-Turkish Propaganda in Some 17th Century Savoy Court Celebrations
- Florence Gétreau (National Center for Scientific Research, Paris)
Music and Dance in Allegories of the Good Government: Versailles between 1661 and 1685
- Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa (University of Warsaw Library)
The Role of Music in Promoting the Franco-Spanish Union by the Marriage of Louis XIII with Anne of Austria in 1615
13.30−15.00
Lunch break
15.00–16.30
Session 3: Romantic Opera
Chair: Stanislav Tuksar (University of Zagreb)
- Davide Nadali (Sapienza University of Rome, University of Parma)
Looking at Music: the Representation of the Ancient Near East between Fiction and Reality in the Age of Orientalism
- Vjera Katalinić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
The Picture of the National Hero in the Croatian National Opera during the 'Long 19th-Century'
- Grzegorz Zieziula (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
From Ariadne to Halka: the ‘Melodrama Model’ in Polish National Opera and its Iconography
17.30 Guided Museum Tour - The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Ostrogski Palace, Okólnik 1, Warsaw
Friday 30 March 2012
10.00–11.30
Session 4: Music as an Element of Propaganda between the World Wars
Chair: Björn R. Tammen (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
- Przemysław Strożek (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
‘Jazz is the face of nostalgia for our time’ (A.G. Bragaglia). Jazz and Futurism in Fascist Italy
- Patricia Hall (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Ballet’ Olympia
- Piotr Dahlig (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Music on Postage Stamps. Preferences, Propaganda, Art
11.30–12.00
Coffee Break
12.00−13.30
Session 5: Twentieth-Century Totalitarism and Its Iconosphere
Chair: Patricia Hall (University of Michigan, Ann Arbour)
- Marcin Zgliński (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Iconosphere of Music in the Stalinist USRR and the Third Reich – a Tentative Comparison
- Stanislav Tuksar (University of Zagreb)
Hidden and Overt Socio-Political Messages in 1941 Croatian Newspapers: Totalitarian Rightist Ideology and its Musico-Pictorial Projections
- Sławomir Wieczorek (University of Wrocław)
Music in the Iconosphere of Stalinist Poland
13.30−15.00
Lunch break
15.00−16.30
Session 6: Popular Music and Its Ideology
Chair: Sławomira Żerańska−Kominek (University of Warsaw)
- Mariusz Gradowski (University of Warsaw)
‘Polish Hair’. Some Remarks on Cultural Propaganda, Image and Stage Performance of Polish Rock and Roll Bands in the 1960s
- Nicola Bizzo (University of Turin)
Queen’s Influences Between Theatre, Movies and Comics: a Focus on Mass Media and the Advertising Sidelines of Musical Iconography
- Julijana Zhabeva-Papazova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)
Alternative Rock in Yugoslavia in the 1980s and its Musical Iconography
16.30 Closing of the conference
Organizer:
Liber Pro Arte Society
Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with
International Musicological Society - Study Group on Musical Iconography
Scientific committee:
Paweł Gancarczyk, Dominika Grabiec, Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak, Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska, Björn R. Tammen, Marcin Zgliński
Contact person:
Dominika Grabiec, email: dominikagrabiec@wp.pl
Address of the hosting institution:
Instytut Sztuki PAN, Zakład Muzykologii, ul. Długa 26/28, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland
Partner:
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw
The visual arts have served as a main propaganda tool from the days of antiquity until modern times, and the links between various forms of artistic activity and politics have long been the ubject of research. Without allowing for such ideological content, a proper understanding of numerous works of art (particularly of those commissioned by the ruling authorities, institutions or social groups) seems to be impossible. In many instances the choice of themes to be represented and the symbols employed therein aimed at specific audiences in order to shape particular views or even behaviours; some of these depictions make explicit or implicit use of musical devices. The conference will be devoted to the links between musical iconography, politics and ideology and the various manifestations of political, religious and commercial propaganda from antiquity to the twentieth century. We particularly encourage papers dealing with the following issues:
- musico-pictorial propaganda within feudalism, absolute monarchy or totalitarianism;
- musical symbolism, the ideology of the Catholic church and sixteenth-century Reformation;
- national and social movements and its musical icons;
- the place of music within posters, mass-media, and advertising.
The main language of the conference will be English.
Our previous conferences:
2010: Perspektywy ikonografii muzycznej w Polsce. Źródła – konteksty – interpretacje
2011: Muzyka w sztukach wizualnych XIX–XXI wieku