Free Floater Nachwuchsgruppe: Music, Conflict and the State

Soundtrack of Conflict: Conference Programme


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    Thursday, 15 September 2011

    Session 0

  • 08:45-09:30 Registration / Welcome

  • 09:30-10:00 M. J. Grant: Welcome and Introduction to the Conference


    • Session 1 Chair: Andreas Waczkat

  • 10:00-10:30 Mauro Fosco Bertola (Universität Heidelberg)
    Tradition as a Pattern of War-Incitement: The Musical Policy of Italian Radio during the Fascist Period

  • 10:30-11:00 Karine Le Bail (EHESS, Paris)
    “La musique des Ondes en France, sous l’occupation”

  • 11:00-11:30 Katherine Baber (University of Redlands)
    Jazz, World War II Radio Propaganda, and the Case of Tokyo Rose

  • 11:30-12:00 Discussion

  • 12:00-14:00 Lunch



    • Session 2 Chair: Christian Storch

  • 14:00-14:30 Inna Klause (Universität Göttingen)
    Music in Radio Broadcasts in the Gulag

  • 14:30-15:00 Chen-Ching Cheng (University of Edinburgh)
    The Voice of China: Pirate Radio Broadcasting of Teresa Teng from Taiwan and Hong Kong during the Cold War Period in Asia

  • 15:00-15:30 Discussion

  • 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break



    • Session 3 Chair: Birgit Abels

  • 16:00-16:30 Pradeep Nishantha Weerasinghe (University of Colombo)
    Music and Radio during the final Stage of the Eelam War in Sri Lanka

  • 16:30-17:00 Ruth Finnegan (Open University, UK)
    Integration or Separation? The story of Radio and Music in Fiji

  • 17:00-17:30 Discussion





    Friday, 16 September 2011

    Session 4 Chair: Stephanie Leder

  • 10:00-10:30 Peter Schimpf (Metropolitan State College, Denver)
    Henry Cowell and the development of Iranian State Radio for the United States Information Agency

  • 10:30-11:00 Beau Bothwell (Columbia University)
    Sounding American: Radio Sawa‘s Musical Diplomacy in the Middle Eastern Radioscape

  • 11:00-11:30 Discussion

  • 11:30-13:00 Lunch



    • Session 5 Chair: Cornelia Nuxoll

  • 13:00-13:30 Oluwafemi Alexander Ladapo (University of Ibadan)
    Martial Music at Dawn: Introit for Coup d‘Etats

  • 13:30-14:00 Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi (University of Witwatersrand)
    Radio Freedom, Songs of Freedom and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa, 1963-1991

  • 14:00-14:30 Paul Richards (Universiteit Wageningen)
    Broadcasting and the Soundscape of War - Music in Armed Insurgency

  • 14:30-15:00 Discussion

  • 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break



    • Session 6 Chair: M. J. Grant

  • 15:30-16:00 Sarah Angello (CUNY Graduate Centre; New York)
    Broadcasting Democracy, Silencing Freedom: Music, Broadcasting and Censorship in Rwanda

  • 16:00-16:30 James Parker (Melbourne Law School)
    Simon Bikindi, Incitement to Genocide and the Musicology of Justice

  • 16:30-17:00 Discussion



    • Session 7a/b Lecture Performance in the Studio of Stadtradio Göttingen

  • 18:30-19:30 (Group A), 20:00-21:00 (Group B)
    Milo Rau and Jens Dietrich with Dorcy Rugamba
    (International Institute of Political Murder, Berlin/Zürich)
    Introduction to the Theatre Project "Hate Radio"



      • Saturday, 17 September 2011

      Session 8 Chair: Anna Papaeti

    • 10:00-10:30 Elli Charamis (University of Athens)
      Music in Greek Radio Broadcasting in Wartime (1940-1950)

    • 10:30-11:00 Vlasis Vlasidis (University of Western Macedonia, Florina)
      Propaganda and Music: Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s

    • 11:00-11:30 Discussion

    • 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break



      • Session 9 Chair: M. J. Grant

    • 12:00-13:00 Closing discussion