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Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Maria Sonevytsky (UC Berkeley), “Musical Evolution and The Other: State-Sponsored Musical Evolutionism in the USSR and the Conundrum of Post-Soviet Crimean Tatar Indigenous Music”

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
REEEC; Davis Center at Harvard University; CEERES at University of Chicago; CREEES at University of Texas; CREES at University of Pittsburgh; CREECA at University of Wisconsin; REEI at Indiana University; IAUNRC at Indiana University; CSEES at Ohio State University; ISEEES at University of California
Date
Nov 5, 2020   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Maria Sonevytsky (Assistant Professor of Music, University of California - Berkeley)
Cost
Free and open to the public.
Contact
REEEC
E-Mail
reec@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Co-sponsored Events

In the Soviet Union, logics of teleological evolutionism undergirded the Communist party-state’s interventions into many aspects of Soviet life, including the realm of “folk music.” In this lecture, Professor Sonevytsky draws on the example of the Soviet institutionalization of a Crimean Tatar folk orchestra to demonstrate how Soviet musical evolutionism ordered and constrained vernacular musical practices in ways that have had long-term political consequences, especially with regard to the politics of post-Soviet indigeneity. The lecture concludes by comparing the Soviet case to a contemporary discourse of musical evolutionism, observing how it risks exiling some musics to a present that is “less evolved.”

Maria Sonevytsky is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California - Berkeley.

Livestream available at https://fb.me/e/3RYPzLfnq 

This lecture series is a collaborative effort to showcase an area studies specialist from each center focusing on the Russian, East European, and Central Asian world region. The series is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Russian, East European & Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University; the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin; the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University; the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin - Madison; the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at The University of Chicago; and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University.

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