Talk on “Slavs and Pagans in Polish Popular Music” at the GWZO Annual Conference
Karin Reichenbach (GWZO) with a talk on “Music, Myths and Metal: Slavs and Pagans in Polish Popular Music”
at the GWZO Annual Conference: “Myths of the Past in Service of the Present: Resurgent Conceptions of National Origins in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe”
Where: Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig, 3-4 June 2024
When: Tuesday, June 4, 2024, 09.00–10.30
Panel 3: National Origins in Literature and Music
Chair: Stephan Krause (GWZO)
Since the 19th century, nation-building processes have been accompanied by imaginations of supposedly distinctive, deeply rooted, and historically stable concepts of ethnicity. This applies not exclusively, but especially to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, with its rich history of national and territorial transformations. Concepts of ethnic or, respectively, national identity were grounded in occasionally exotic theories of origin and persistence that oscillated between academic scholarship and myth-making.
The GWZO annual conference 2024 analyses the appropriations and modifications of myths of the past with particular reference to current revivals while also exploring these from a historical perspective. It draws on the broad spectrum of disciplines represented at the GWZO— from history and archaeology to art and architectural history, ethnology and literature—to facilitate a multifaceted understanding based on interdisciplinary research.