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February 12th, 2013 19.30 KUG . Florentinersaal Leonhardstraße 15, 8010 Graz
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The Cold War as Ideological Weapon for Anti-Modernists: Historiography and the Musical Avant-Garde
Lecture by Ian Pace
In the last decades a variety of musicologists and historians have drawn upon the paradigm of the cold war to provide a historical explanation for the emergence and growth of the western musical avant-garde. By this paradigm, the Western avant-garde is portrayed in a primarily reactive manner, with musical abstraction and atonality viewed as a direct negation of soviet bloc socialist realism, especially following the Zhdanov decree of 1948. Drawing upon a wide range of archival and other research, Ian Pace challenges many of the foundations and precepts of this argument, and himself argues that this paradigm is little more than a reheated and historically questionable version of antimodernist conservatism.
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