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Course date
July 8–17, 2020
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

Following the success and experience of our summer course ‘Music as Heritage: from Tradition to Product’ organized with CEU Cultural Heritage Studies in 2019, our next musical heritage course will place the Western Balkan, its intangible heritage, and its strong cultural ties to Central and Eastern Europe in its focus. 
 
This regional scope offers fertile grounds for both research and pragmatic explorations branching off to broader societal, historical, political, and cultural matters through the prisms of music and heritage. The Western Balkans is a rich repository of Eastern and Western influences reflected in its art and in close interaction with the rest of the continent. Heritage has received extra layers of context by decades of conflict - which the course reflects by offering discussions on national identity, cross-cultural dialogue, musical heritage management, and preserving tradition through the angle of modern musicology. A two-day field trip will offer an encounter with tangible and intangible heritage.
 
The course will rely on both CEU lecturers and leading scholars in the field such as Jonathan Stock from University College Cork, Martin Stokes from King’s College London, as well as Ardian Ahmedaja from mdw Vienna presented in the format of lectures, seminar discussions, workshops and social events, as well as a field trip to get a real-life experience of traditional music.
 
The course is co-organized by the Forum for Folk Art Fund, Music Hungary, and the Cultural Heritage Studies Program, CEU, Budapest, Hungary.   
 
Partners: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Etnofest Association, Music Export Poland, SoundCzech      
 
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
 

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