Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Palaces, ruins, and beyond: musical practices in the (post) „Ostblock“ and outside, 1970s-2020s (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Katharina Alexi

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 09.04.2025 - 14.05.2025 | C 14.102 b Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Mi, 21.05.2025, 12:15 - Mi, 21.05.2025, 13:45 | C 5.019 Seminarraum | Raumwechsel am 21.05.
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 28.05.2025 - 09.07.2025 | C 14.102 b Seminarraum

Inhalt: This seminar has a focus on a) music, communication, and both independent and state-provided media/spaces, such as (underground and rather official) radio, youth centers/festivals, fanzines/magazines... b) long-time and ephemeral audio/audiovisual archives: songs/records, documentaries,... We will look at musical practices in the following countries/areas: the Czech Republic + Slovakia (formerly Czechoslovakia), Hungary, the former GDR (East Germany), Romania, several member states of the Soviet Union with a focus on the baltic states such as Latvia (formerly LSSR), Belarus (formerly BSSR) and Russia, as well as Bulgaria, and Poland - among them directly (former) neighboring countries. Theoretically, we will discuss cultural narrations of the "Ostblock" and reflect on respective and collective cultural and political heritage(s). We will do this with an understanding of (im)material culture: What has remained left from the palaces for the youth, and for which concept of youth have they existed before, actually? What has rised from the ruins? Please check the seminar plan for topics of the single sessions.

• Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Popular Music Studies - Sociology of Popular Music