Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft (IHEG) e.V.

International Conference: Music and the Spanish Civil War

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MUSIC AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

8 – 10 October 2020

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Zoom)

Convened by Diego Alonso (Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin) in collaboration with the International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin. The conference is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The conference’s official language is English.

Thursday, 8 OCTOBER 2020
9.30 – 9:45 / Welcome Words (Diego Alonso)

9:45 – 10:30 / KEYNOTE: Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz (U. Melbourne):
Conscripting Carmen for the Spanish Civil War

10:45 – 13:00 / TABLE 1: SOLIDARITY FROM ABROAD, EXILED GERMANS AND THE
INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES
Chair: Cristina Urchueguía

• Peter Deeg (Akademie der Künste, Berlin) & Diego Alonso (Humboldt Universität zu
Berlin): Hanns Eisler in Wartime Spain, 1937.

• Carola Schramm & Christof Kugler (Ernst Busch Society): “Canciones de las Brigadas
Internacionales”. Ernst Busch and the Origin of the Songbooks in Spain.

• Elsa Calero-Carramolino (U. Granada): Beyond the London Committee: Musical Solidarity Networks in Britain during the Spanish Civil War

• Milena Amann-Rauter (U. Vienna): Exiled Musicians as Supporters of the Popular Front Movement during the Spanish Civil War

15:00 – 17:00 / TABLE 2: MUSIC AND THE MAKING OF REBEL SPAIN
Chair: Germán Gan Quesada

• Olimpia García López (U. Córdoba): Music, Propaganda and Charity in Nationalist Spain: Beneficent musical activities in Seville during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

• Belén Pérez Castillo (U. Complutense de Madrid): Music, Religiosity and Basquism in
Franco’s Prisons during the Civil War.

• Javier Suárez Pajares (U. Complutense de Madrid): The Curso para Extranjeros
(Santander, 1938) in the Musical Reorganisation of the Francoist State

• Albano García Sánchez (U. Córdoba): Music and Propaganda in Rebel Spain: Radio
Nacional. Revista Semanal de Radio Difusión.

Friday, 9 OCTOBER 2020

9:30 – 10:15 / KEYNOTE: Eva Moreda (U. Glasgow): Unionized Musicians during the Second Republic and Civil War.

10:30 – 12:00 / TABLE 3: “REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC” AND THE SOVIET UNION
Chair: Peter Deeg

• Daniel Kowalsky (Queen’s University): Moscow-Madrid, 1936-1939. Notes for a
Soundtrack

• Atenea Fernández Higuero (U. Oviedo): Anti-fascism, Revolutionary Patriotism and
Communism: Soviet-Spanish Musical Relations during the War

• Yolanda Acker (Australian National University): Music and Soviet Culture in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War

15:00 – 16:00 / TABLE 4: MUSICAL LIFE AND CULTURE IN WARTIME SPAIN
Chair: Javier Suárez Pajares

• David Ferreiro Carballo (U. Complutense de Madrid): «Howitzers sound, but they don’t give a damn»: The Musical Activity in the House of John Milanes during the Civil War.

• Nicolás Rincón Rodríguez (U. Complutense de Madrid): With Prospects of Victory. The (Re)birth of the Spanish Musical Culture during the Civil War

16:15 – 17:45 / TABLE 5: MUSIC THEATER, MEDIA AND WAR PROPAGANDA
Chair: Teresa Cascudo

• Enrique Mejías (SGAE): Music Theatre during the Spanish Civil War.

• Lidia López Gómez (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): Writing for the Screen. Composers and their Filmic Work during the Spanish Civil War.

• Francesc Cortès (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): Between the Seizure of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Purge of its Members: Cultural and Political Debates at the
Barcelona Gran Teatre del Liceu (1936–1940).

Saturday, 10 October 2020

9:30 – 10:15 / KEYNOTE: Iván Iglesias (U. Valladolid): Music historiography and the Spanish Civil War

10:30 – 12:45 / TABLE 6: COLLECTIVE MEMORIES, MYTHS AND LEGACIES OF THE SPANISH WAR
Chair:  Michael Christoforidis

• Germán Gan Quesada (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): Sounds of a controversial memory:
Spanish Civil War and Music Composition in the Late Francoism and Democratic
Transition (1965–1980)

• Samuel Llano (U. Manchester): Myth and Memory in Gerhard’s Post-Civil War Music.

• Milijana Pavlović (U. Innsbruck): En el frente del Jarama: The Musical Cult of the Spanish
Figthers in Yugoslavia

• Luis Velasco-Pufleau (U. Bern): “High overhead some meaningless bullets are singing”:
Listening to George Orwell’s Spanish Civil War

13:00 – 14:30 / ROUND TABLE: MUSICOLOGY AND WAR: CHALLENGES AND DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF WAR FROM A MUSICOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Participants:

Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Morag Grant (University of Edinburgh)

Eva Moreda (University of Glasgow)

Diego Alonso (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

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