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20. Fevrier 2023 Music Discourses after 1970 – conference
Since the 1970s, there has been a boom in contemporary music in many countries; new festivals have emerged, ensembles have been founded, concert series have been launched. The four-year SNSF project “Im Brennpunkt der Entwicklungen. Der Schweizerische Tonkünstlerverein 1975–2017” at Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB examines this situation for Switzerland, looking at the activities of the Swiss Association of Musicians (STV) and its role in the recent history of contemporary music in Switzerland. The following aspects will be focussed on: competing aesthetic developments, the importance of non-composed music, cultural upheavals and development processes, socio-political discussions (co-determination, equality and foreigner policy), the sharpened (primarily) journalistic reflection on aesthetics, but also political coming to terms with the past and media change.
The conference will now place Swiss perspectives in an international context. Of central interest here is the significance of professional and interest associations of music makers for the development of contemporary music in different countries.