Venue: Scandic Bergen City Hotel
September 13 –
14, 2007
Thursday, September 13
08:00 – 08:50 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Opening
Einar Mjølsnes, hardanger-fiddle and Torleif Torgersen,
piano
09:15 – 10:00 Key-note
speaker Harald Herresthal, professor, musicologist and organist, the Norwegian
State College of Music
Freedom, that is the Fight for Freedom!
Social and political engagements among musicians, with examples from the lives
of Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull
10:00 – 10:45 Key-note
speaker Susan McClary, Professor of musicology, University of California
Playing the Identity Card
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee
break
11:00 – 11:45 Key-note
speaker Katia Tchemberdji, composer and pianist
Change of Nation and
Language – Implications on Compositional Language?
11:45 – 12:15 Discussion.
Chaired by Erik Steinskog, Associate professor of Musicology, the Grieg Academy,
University of Bergen
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 15:30 Session
I – Presentations
Chaired by Peter Larsen, professor, Department of Information Science and Media
Studies, University of Bergen
Yngve Næss, Associate professor, Bergen University College /
the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
Music and Identity-or was it the other way around?
Ole Reitov, programme officer, Freemuse – The World Forum on Music and
Censorship
Music Censorship - the clash within civilisations
Randi Rolsvjord, Associate professor, the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
Finally it is something I can do! Experiencing self-identity through
resource-oriented music therapy
Øyvind Aase, pianist and writer
Do pianists exist to play piano concertos? Grieg's a minor Concerto as a
national canon
Brynjulf Stige, professor in music therapy, the Grieg
Academy, University of Bergen Grieg Effects: on hypertextuality and musical identity in music therapy
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:15 Music:
A
non-national nation? Diaspora, Globalisation and Human
Rights
Friday, September 14
Music and National Identity: Grieg and beyond
10:00 – 10:45 Key-note
speaker Patrick Dinslage, President of the International Grieg Society and director
of the Grieg Research Senter at The University of Art, Berlin
Franz Liszt, Mentor for Edvard Grieg
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Key-note
speaker Erling Sandmo, senior researcher, historian, University of Oslo:
The
Power of Emotions – and the Emotions of Power: Music, Subjectivity,
and Politics in a Historical Perspective
Chaired by Mette Andersson, Associate professor, Department
of Sociology, University of Bergen
Erik Steinskog, Associate Professor, the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
Towards a Critique of Harmonic Reason: Ellington, Grieg and Peer Gynt
Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby, PhD candidate, Centre for Women’s
Studies and Gender Research, University of Oslo,
Anitra’s Dance Music, Identity and Orientalism in the 1870s
Thomas Solomon, Associate professor, the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen
Whose Diaspora? Hybrid Identities in "Turkish Rap" in Germany
Ingvill Morlandstø, student, the Grieg Academy, University
of
Bergen
Communication of National and Transnational Identities in
Cuban Music
Annemette Kirkegaard, Associate professor, University of
Copenhagen
African Islamic pop – what kind of musical identity?
