14th October 2024, Joseph Haydn-Hall
Between Cultural Labor and Political Struggle: Music and Class

In view of the crisis-ridden character of global capitalism, the concept of class is receiving renewed attention across many scholarly disciplines. The 2024 MMRC Lecture invited different perspectives on the connections between class and music as a political instrument, an economic power relation and a creative, shared experience of self-determination and resistance across different geographical and historical contexts.

_____Program

Musical Performance: Mata Granata

Opening: Gerda Müller, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Introduction: Ursula Hemetek, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Keynote: "Lessons on Music and Class struggle"
Ana Hofman (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana)

Response: "Migrant Sonic Work: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Class Mobilities of Music and Race"
Anjeline de Dios (Manila)

Q&A Session: Chaired by Ursula Hemetek, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Musical performance: Mata Granata