Musical Theatre in the Expanded Field of Music

PROGRAMME

h 16.00, Laboratorio di Filologia musicale 

The lecture will focus on the position of contemporary musical theatre in the expanded field of music. Questioning the existence of music in the sonic medium exclusively as well as the other institutional aspects of music functioning, known as the system of the musically valid [das System des musikalisch Geltenden, Eggebrecht], has become common practice from the beginnings of the 20th century. Avant-garde tendencies in the 1950s made the final breakthrough in expanding the medium of musical expression by focusing on contextual, conceptual and performative aspects as the source of material for the creation of works. Those aspects are particularly exploited in contemporary musical theatre, as shown in the recent works by composers Heiner Goebbels and Peter Ablinger.

BIO

Amila Ramović is a musicologist and a curator from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an associate professor at the University of Sarajevo – Academy of Music. From 1999 she has been a member, and from 2018 the president of the Musicological Society of the Federation of BiH. Her curatorial practice is aimed at interdiciplinarity in contemporary arts. Her career in the arts started when she joined the Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art team in Sarajevo in 2000, where she later served as Executive Director (2005-2017). She has organized dozens of exhibitions and educational projects in the field of contemporary art, and curated exhibitions by leading Bosnian and international artists, including Braco Dimitrijević’s solo show at the Venice Biennale (2009). In 2013 and 2014 she was the artistic director of the Sarajevo Sonic Studio project, designed in collaboration with composers Heiner Goebbels, Philippe Manoury, Peter Ablinger and Vinko Globokar. In 2019 she was awarded Honorary Fellowship by Plymouth College of Art, and in 2022 she received the annual „Vlado Milošević“ prize for musicology and writing on music from the Bosnian Composer's Association.