Diverse Relationships between Center and Periphery in Music The 6th Tbilisi International Musicological Conference
May 23-25, 2025 Tbilisi, Georgia
Venue: V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire
Concepts and models of the relationships between center and periphery are widely discussed not only in the geopolitical, economic, and social sciences, but also in other fundamental disciplines, among them a wide range of studies, including art history, literature, film, and cultural studies. Within the framework of this problematic, we can consider, in particular, decentralization, the resistance/counter-action of the periphery to the center, and the formation of new centers.
Musicological research on the above-mentioned issue has been actively conducted since the end of the last century, but the very question of the correlation between the central and peripheral has existed in music for many centuries. It concerns not only large-scale historical processes and their impact on music, but also manifests itself in virtually all aspects of the functioning of music as a phenomenon, both at the micro- and macro-level.
Taking into account a number of historical and contemporary circumstances, this subject is particularly
interesting in the studies of Georgian music. Georgian traditional and art music, both together and separately, offer inexhaustible possibilities for the multifaceted development of this topic.
The Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire invites musicologists of all directions, performers, composers, and researchers in related disciplines to take part in the conference DIVERSE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN MUSIC
The organizers invite participants to discuss the following topics (by no means exhaustive):
- The varied manifestations, the interrelations of center and periphery, and/or models and their possible transformations:
– In music of totalitarian and post-totalitarian spaces;
– In Georgian traditional, and popular and art music;
– In contemporary experimental music;
– In rethinking musicological narratives and theoretical schools of the XIX-XXI cen-turies, or in their re-evaluation;
– In performance and interpretation;
– In musical language, systems, issues of form, genre and style.
- Music as a space for interpreting the aesthetic-philosophical, political and social ideas of the past and present.
The official conference languages are Georgian and English.
For additional information, please contact: TSC Research Coordination Department
science@tsc.edu.ge