This conference will encompass a period spanning from the interwar years to the present day, and totalitarian regimes as well as small groups struggling for their survival. It will focus on the political uses of sound as a means of persuasion, amplification and expansion, through an estheticization – musical, oratorical, event-based – of fascist political projects.
The conference will be held in English on September 24, 25 and 26, 2025 at the Abteilung für Musikwissenschaft/Sound Studies of the University of Bonn.