is on the programme committee for the conference ‘Musical Legacies of State Socialism: Revisiting Narratives about Post-World War II Europe’, to be held in Belgrade in September 2015. The conference seeks to revisit the musical legacies of socialist countries in Europe in the period 1945−89. The aim is go beyond the simplistic or reified readings of the impermeable Iron Curtain, and instead open up a discourse that will examine the mechanics of social engineering in the constructions of the Iron Curtain, with its implied symbolic borders and the politics of inside-outside, Eastern/Socialist–Western/Capitalist. The conference will examine the cultural programmes cultivated by the socialist states, the influence of socialist ideology on music in the West, and the present-day political and artistic re-appropriation of the socialist legacies. The conference is co-organised by the , part of the . The full call for papers may be read here .
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