“The Yellow Ticket“ (original: Der Gelbe Schein, 1918) is a German UFA-production directed by Victor Janson and Eugen Illés about a young Polish-Jewish woman, who escapes her poor native village in Poland to study medicine in St Petersburg. Forced by … Read more
The year 1968 was a momentous one in many spots on the globe, perhaps no more so than in Poland and Czechoslovakia. With a few exceptions, however, 1968 and its aftermath in these two countries largely have been studied in … Read more
The collecting of vinyl records and music tapes in communist Poland was prohibitively expensive, not to mention that official releases of recordings by Western artists hardly existed in the 1970s and 1980s. As a result, informal social networks of listeners … Read more
In A SOUND MAP OF THE DANUBE, Annea Lockwood weaves together field recordings made over the course of several trips along the European subcontinent’s greatest waterway—from its source through the opening of its delta into the Black Sea. The public conversation with … Read more
Unlike her celebrated brother, Vaslav Nijinsky, who dominates the narrative of early twentieth-century ballet, Bronislava Nijinska appears only fitfully in the history of ballet modernism and the narrative of neoclassicism. Again and again, a willful process of un-remembering seems to … Read more
Join us for a presentation and discussion of Andrea Bohlman's monograph "Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland" (Oxford University Press, 2020). Participants: Anna Krakus (University of Southern California), Donald Reid (History, UNC) and the author Andrea … Read more
Due to the growing impact of COVID-19 on travel and university operations around the country, we are postponing this event until further notice. As the situation continues to develop, we will be adjusting our event scheduling as needed. Thank you … Read more
Jamie Blake is a PhD Candidate in Musicology. Her dissertation, “Architects of Russian America: Musical Networks in the Early Twentieth Century,” focuses on early Russian émigrés and visiting artists in the United States, the transnational and international networks they developed, … Read more
Andrea Bohlman is an associate professor in the UNC Department of Music and a recipient of the 2020 Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. Her scholarship resides in the still relatively young academic field of sound studies. She integrates … Read more
Join us for an evening with the Cultural Forces of Ukraine, the cultural arm of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This special event will feature a presentation on the role of cultural diplomacy in bolstering Ukrainian morale during the ongoing … Read more
