[AMS-announce] CFP: Postmodernism beyond the "Iron Curtain, " Hanover University, Nov 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Hanover University of Music and Drama
November 20th   22nd, 2009 or November 27th   29th, 2009

Postmodernism beyond the "Iron Curtain"
International Symposium on the Occasion of Alfred Schnittke s 75th Birthday

A co-operation between the Hanover University of Music and Drama, the German Alfred Schnittke Society (Hamburg) and the Society for Contemporary Music Hanover

In November 2009, on the occasion of Alfred Schnittke s 75th birthday, the University of Music and Drama Hanover (Germany) will host an international symposium on the emergence of postmodern tendencies in the former "Eastern Bloc" States. Within the context of Soviet musical history Alfred Schnittke plays a central role: his polystylistic idiom can be perceived as mirror of the Soviet reality, as well as of that of the 20th century in general. On the surface his technique seems to be an ideal implementation of postmodern ideas into music. It is to be questioned, however, to which extent it actually depends on these ideas, as Schnittke in the Soviet Union of the 1960s had to cope with completely different musico-aesthetic premises (Socialist Realism) than western composers. Furthermore, the symposium asks whether and how similar ideas permeate the composers  repertoire in other countries beyond the Iron Curtain and which controversies this music has caused, especially in Germa
 n-spe
aking countries.

The programme committee cordially invites scholars to submit 250-word abstracts for papers of 20 minutes, which are related to one or more of the following issues:

A. (Musical) postmodernism in East and West: basics, varieties, similarities
B.      Schnittke s musical poetics: papers on single works and work groups
C.      Reflections of Schnittke behind the Iron Curtain: perspectives on GDR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,   and other composers in the Soviet Union
D.      Reception of Schnittke and his contemporaries in Germany (including GDR)


The deadline for the submission of abstracts (with CV) is November 30, 2008.
Please send your abstract as a word document to the following e-mail addresses:
stefan.weiss at hmt-hannover.de
AmreiFlechsig at web.de

If you have any further enquiries, please contact us.