CFP: International Workshop: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

Deadline: November 10, 2022

International Workshop: A Music So Popular That No Curtain Could Contain: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), December 5, 2022

The purpose of the workshop “Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War” is to investigate the means through which popular music developed in the Eastern Bloc and circulated across  borders and the Iron Curtain (on either side). In particular, we are interested in exploring how popular music was influenced by cultural, technological, and informal transfers, by the larger processes of modernization and development of leisure life, as well as by institutional cooperation between various states, either within the Socialist Bloc, or beyond it.

For further information, please visit the link below:

https://nec.ro/popular-music-and-cultural-transfers/?fbclid=IwAR1p-QkR67eErUa9jt1rplH9Jba-O2VLM7dUucVCbpT4CBEtnMR4u1MY4bg

Those interested in taking part are kindly asked to submit a 300 word paper proposal and a 100 word short bio to the following address: oancea_claudiu@yahoo.co.uk

Deadline for submission: November 10, 2022.

We intend to publish the papers, in extended and revised form, in an edited volume. When submitting your paper proposal, please mention whether you are also interested in contributing to this volume.

The workshop will be held in a hybrid form. We invite presentations to be held online, or on site, at New Europe College, in Bucharest, Romania.

Working language: English.

Organizers: Claudiu Oancea (Project Director, New Europe College); New Europe College.

This workshop is organized within the framework of the project “Rocking under the Hammer and the Sickle: Popular Music in Socialist Romania between Ideology and Entertainment (1948-1989)”, supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0244 within PNCDI III.