The conference is jointly organised by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini\u2019s Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies and several Berlin institutions:
\nHumboldt Universit\u00e4t, Stiftung Humboldt Forum, Ethnologisches Museum; Staatliches Institut f\u00fcr Musikforschung and the Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste.
\nThe conference aims to explore the role of music at the time of the division of Berlin and Europe during the Cold War. In particular, it intends to bring together scholars and witnesses of that time to assess how, across the divide, both blocs pursued a cosmopolitan perspective and how the dissemination of various world musics influenced the cultural and political dynamics of the day.
\nThe International Institute for Traditional Music (IITM), active from 1963 to 1994 (the dates considered by the conference), played an important
\nrole in those years. The foundation of the IITM \u2013 sister institute of the Venetian Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies \u2013 by the Indologist and music researcher Alain Dani\u00e9lou with funds from the Ford Foundation took place in a political-cultural context characterised by the East-West conflict. This context will be the subject of reflection, focusing on the particular situation in Berlin and assessing how music constituted as much an element of division as of connection, contributing to the construction of original and sometimes shared paths in a period of deep divisions, reconsidering their cultural legacy.
\nThe event, which also includes performances, is an ideal follow-up to the conference organised at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in 2019, in collaboration
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