Music culture during the occupation period

The conference examines the music cultures of Austria during the post-1945 occupation period from musicological and cultural studies perspectives. The focus is on the diverse developments in musical life under Allied occupation, as well as the question of which traditions, structures, and networks persisted or were renegotiated.

The thematic scope ranges from the Salzburg Festival and the Mozarteum Foundation to folk music, operetta, and jazz, extending to the cultural policies of the occupying powers and the handling of the National Socialist past. Local and regional characteristics are considered alongside supraregional developments. A particular emphasis is placed on the interactions between music and the political, social, and cultural continuities and ruptures of this period.

The event combines scholarly analyses with practical approaches and opens up new perspectives on Austria's post-war music-cultural history.