Music and Liberation III: Musical Responses to Political Changes

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Providing insights into crucial historical and cultural junctures, accentuated by the power of music, this panel’s topics span from the intertwined histories of Soviet Jews amid Stalinism and Romani performative identities responding to the surge of populism in Bulgaria to an examination of how Soviet elites in Budapest and Moscow reacted to the upheaval in the Soviet cultural empire triggered by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This panel showcases a diverse array of nuanced liberation narratives, illuminating the complexities inherent in moments of societal upheaval, identity formation, cultural transformation, and political crises.

Sub Unit

• Arts II: Music, Theater, Performance Studies

Chair

• Kevin Bartig, Michigan State U

Papers

• To Be in Central Asia Was Already to Be Free?: Weinberg, Yudakov, and Postwar Antisemitism - Alexandra Birch, Columbia U

• Soviet Cultural Empire in Crisis: The National and Imperial in the Soviet Cultural Community, 1956-1957 - Kiril Tomoff, UC Riverside

Discussant

• Emily Frey, Brandeis U