This project is about imperial, meta-national, and national discourses on music at the southern military border of the Habsburg Monarchy. The specially protected border space along the lower Danube region, where the Slavonian (1745–1881) and the Banat (1751–1873) Military Frontiers were established to protect the Empire from the Ottoman military operations, allowed for a multi-layered cultural transfer which involved the remote capital (Vienna), the free royal cities in Pannonia as local centers, and the main towns within the border space, as well as the Ottoman Empire beyond the border.
My analysis is based on writings on music, mainly the musical and cultural life, concert and theater guest performances, published in the newspapers in German ("Esseker Lokalblatt und Landbote", "Slawonische Presse" in Slavonia; "Groß-Becskereker Wochenblatt", "Banater Post" in the Banat), in Serbian ("Glas", "Pančevac"), in Croatian ("Virovitičanin", "Sriemski Hrvat") and in Hungarian ("Torontál"), but also in periodicals, anniversary publications of choral societies and theatres, the program notes of music performances, books and later established professional music journals, as well as publications by the first professional musicologists (e.g. Franjo Kuhač). Within the complex pluricultural, i.e. multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious (Christian – Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant; Jewish; Muslim heritage) border region, writings on music convey the full panorama of cosmopolitan, imperial, Pan-Slavic, and (meta-)national narratives of different social groups, emerging from the complex network of cultural and administrative institutions within the imperial context (Germans and Croats lived in the Habsburg Monarchy), including the diaspora (Serbs were divided between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires), also considering a phase of Pan-Slavism (Austroslavism) and general social and sociological aspects.
The project’s theoretical framework is related to the structures of power and the construction of vernacular languages, challenging the concept of identity to provide more profound insights into cultural and social practices. The deeply-rooted nationalist attitude will be counterbalanced by elucidating the multifaceted variety of the – ultimately overlapping – imperial and national perspectives. These served as a basis for various self-representations even among the same national and religious communities and numerous minorities. The cultural and musical activities of settlers in the area between the two empires, including the Slavs (Serbs, Croats, Slovaks), Hungarians, Germans, Romanians, and Jews are also considered.
Markovic, Tatjana (10.06.2022) Establishing Turkish National Opera in Southeast European Context (1934). Vortrag bei: Europe and Europeans on the Ottoman/Turkish stage and the establishment of opera in Turkes from the 19th until the mid-20th centura (Don Juan Archiv Wien, Theatre Foundation of Turkey, Vienna School of International Studies, Pera Museum Istanbul, iTi - International Theatre Institute of UNESCO Centre Austria), Wien/AUSTRIA <http://www.donjuanarchiv.at/veranstaltungen/symposia/symposia-2022.html>.
Markovic, Tatjana (28.05.2022) Emerging of national opera traditions in the Balkans. Vortrag bei: Towards a Common Regional History of Our Nation Building Strategies Traveling Directors, Musicians (Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network), Budapest/HUNGARY <https://zti.hu/files/mzt/v4_conference/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (27.05.2022) Guest performances of Karl/Carl Rémay’s theater troupe in the Banat in 1862-1866. Vortrag bei: Towards a Common Regional History of Our Nation-Building Strategies. Traveling Directors, Musicians. An International Musicological Conference (Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Budapest/HUNGARY <https://zti.hu/files/mzt/v4_conference/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (27.05.2022) Guest performances of Karl/Carl Rémay’s theater troupe in Groß-Becskerek in 1862-1869. Vortrag bei: Towards a Common Regional History of Our Nation Building Strategies Traveling Directors, Musicians (Hungarian Music History of the Institute for Musicology Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network), Budapest/HUNGARY <https://zti.hu/files/mzt/v4_conference/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (25.05.2022) Guest performances of Karl/Carl Rémay’s theater troupe in Groß-Becskerek in 1862. Vortrag bei: Towards a common regional history of our nation building strategies. Traveling directors, musicians (MDW - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA <https://www.mdw.ac.at/imi/central-europe/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (25.05.2022) Guest performances of Karl/Carl Rémay’s theater troupe in Groß-Becskerek in 1862. Vortrag bei: Music, Culture & Politics in Central Europe. Historical Perspectives #7 (Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Interpretationsforschung, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), Wien/AUSTRALIA <https://www.mdw.ac.at/imi/central-europe/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (12.05.2022) Yugoslavian Disco. Posterpräsentation bei: Yugoslavian Disco: Digging into an “excluded” musical culture of late socialism (MDW - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Markovic, Tatjana (28.01.2022) Globality of Balkan Music(ology). Vortrag bei: Global Musicology – Global Music History (Durham University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Buenos Aires IAE-FFyL), online/UNITED KINGDOM <https://globalmusicology.org/gmgm2022-programme/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (28.01.2022) Globality of Balkan Music(ology). Vortrag bei: Global Musicology - Global Music History. Virtual Conference (Amanda Hsieh (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR) Vera Wolkowicz (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina))/UNITED KINGDOM <https://globalmusicology.squarespace.com/programme>.
Markovic, Tatjana (07.12.2021) French Opera in Belgrade in the first half of the 20th Century: Reception and Creative Inspiration. Vortrag bei: Images of nineteenth-century French musical life. Conference in honor of H Robert Cohen (RIPM, ICTM Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts), Centre de musique romantique française, Venice/ITALY <https://bru-zane.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Symposium-programme-Images-of-19th-century-French-musical-life.pdf>.
Markovic, Tatjana (20.09.2021) Russische Stunde: Polnische und tschechische bzw. tschechoslowakische Musik. Vortrag bei: Russische Stunde (Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Interpretationsforschung MDW), MDW, Wien/AUSTRIA.
Markovic, Tatjana (15.04.2021) Contested entertainment: Discussions on operetta in Belgrade, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Vortrag bei: Operetta between the two World Wars – On the 100th Anniversary of the Opening of the Opera of the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor (35th Slovenian Music Days 2021), online, Ljubljana/SLOVENIA <https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=957419>.
Markovic, Tatjana (10.12.2020) Nineteenth-Century Music Salons and Imperial Legacies: Cultural Transfer of European Musical Life into Serbia. Vortrag bei: Inaugural conference Music of the CNCMC - The Centre for Ninettenth Century Music Studies Multiculturalityand Sociability in the 19th-Century Central and Southeastern European Salons (National University of Music Bucharest), Bucharest/ROMANIA <https://www.scribd.com/document/488405492/BUCHAREST-CNCMS-INAUGURAL-CONFERENCE-PROGRAM-10-11-DECEMBER-2020>.
Markovic, Tatjana (06.12.2019) Austrian Music in Metanational and Metaregional Perspectives: Music Networks between Vienna, South Slavic Crownlands, and Southeast Europe. Vortrag bei: Austrian Music Studies: Gegenstand – Perspektiven – Konzepte. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft (ÖGMw) (Institut für Musikwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck in Kooperation mit dem Doktoratskolleg „Austrian Studies“ der Universität Innsbruck), Innsbruck/AUSTRIA <https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-40201; https://www.uibk.ac.at/fsp-kultur/events/2019/downloads/gesamtprogramm-tagungen-dezember-2019.pdf>.
Markovic, Tatjana (01.12.2019) Modern, new, or exotic: Reception of works by Nikos Skalkottas and other Greek composers in Berlin (1929–1939). Vortrag bei: International Conference Sklakottas Today, Athens/GREECE <https://musicology.mus.auth.gr/en/international-conference-skalkottas-today/>.
Markovic, Tatjana (29.10.2019) „Rettet die Wale, und stürzt das System“ (Gustav) – Kunst als Subversion. Widerstand und Aktivismus. Vortrag bei: Symposium Musikerinnen in der Region - Handlungsräume und ihre Akteurinnen in der Steiermark (Kunstuniversität Graz, Zentrum für Genderforschung), Graz/AUSTRIA <https://genderforschung.kug.ac.at/zentrum-fuer-genderforschung/aktuell/details/article/symposium-musikerinnen-in-der-region-handlungsraeume-und-ihre-akteurinnen-in-der-steiermark-28.html>.
Markovic, Tatjana (19.09.2019) Die Wiener Staatsoper und Südosteuropa: Politische, soziale und kulturelle Netzwerke. Vortrag bei: Staatsoper Jubiläum Geschichte der Oper in Wien (Staatsoper Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA <https://issuu.com/wienerstaatsoper/docs/folder_tagung_150jahre_297x210_low_?e=27106292/64423449>.
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