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46th International Baltic Musicological Conference
Cultural Change And Music Criticism
Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius)
23–26 October 2018

Over fifty years ago Baltic musicological conferences were established as a
cultural space for musical exchange, professional collaboration, and openness to
the wider international networking. In 2018, the three neighbouring countries –
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – celebrate the centennial of their modern
statehood. Inspired by the key reference points throughout the century of
changes, the 46th international Baltic musicological conference will focus on
music criticism in its relationship to cultural transformations. The conference
seeks to encourage discussion about the contribution of critical discourse on
music to the 20th–21st c. cultural and social processes.


In the 20th–21st centuries, music criticism played an important role in the
articulation and critical reflection on rapid changes of culture and their
relationship to political history, social and economical transformation,
development of technologies and media. Shifts in traditions and canons, variety
of new music phenomena, cultural hybridization, expansion of musical consumption
and globalization of music industry – orientations of music criticism and
understanding of its function were influenced to a great extent by the changing
worlds of music. Engaged as an instrument of cultural self-awareness,music
criticism itself contributes to the political, social and cultural changes. As
Jacques Attali well writes, music “makes audible the new world that will
gradually become visible, that will impose itself and regulate the order of
things; it is not only the image of things, but the transcending of the
everyday, the herald of the future” (Attali 1985) – this attitude can be
addressed not only to musical expression, but also to the critical discourse on
music. In the context of “cultural omnivorousness” (Peterson 1996) and general
cultural polyglotism (Eco 1990), music criticismseeks to reconsider the
typologies of ideas and values employed for assessment of musical practice and
to reflect their effectiveness within local and global cultural spaces.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley)
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King's College London)
Andreas Engström (Kontraklang, Berlin)
Olga Manulkina (St Petersburg N. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory)

   
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