Jānis Daugavietis takes part in a conference in Ljubljana

LU LFMI researcher Jānis Daugavietis is participating in the conference “How Does ‘Your’ Music Sound? Belonging, Communities, and Identities in Popular Music across Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with the paper “Folklore as a Resistance Identity Tool in Extreme Metal: the Case of the Latvian Pagan Band Skyforger”.

The conference is organized by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Religion at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, together with the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). The most common conference paper topics are related, in one way or another, to concepts and phenomena such as “pop music,” “folk music,” “folk,” “turbofolk,” “traditional music,” and “schlager.”

More information about the conference is available here:
https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/en/news-and-information/events-and-photo-gallery/event-calendar/how-does-your-music-sound-belonging-communities-and-identities-in-popular-music-across-central-eastern-and-south-eastern-europe

Jānis Daugavietis’s presentation is available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kqnFXy3umHroIMPF364KR59q4yuNosmP0oy-urvIUSc/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p