The Department of History cordially invites you to the public lecture by Markian Prokopovych on November 29, Friday from 13:30 in TIGY room
Listening in Budapest: Mapping Music Practices in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
This lecture is an integral part of the Budapest-Vienna Seminar "Imperial Metropoles: Habsburg and Ottoman Cities in the Long Nineteenth Century", which is the result of the new cooperation between the Department of History at CEU and the Institute for East European Studies in Vienna. Drawing on the outcomes of recent research on Hungarian and specifically Budapest urban culture at the turn of the twentieth century, including his forthcoming In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884-1918, Prokopovych will map places of music listening in the Hungarian capital, differentiating the ‘high’ (opera) from the ‘low’ (operetta, cabaret, music hall) and the ‘street’ (music practices in cafes and restaurants) in order to broaden our understanding of how the city’s diverse and stratified music-loving public functioned on the urban map: put simply, who went where to listen to what kind of music and how those practices defined the relationships between people and urban environment.
Markian Prokopovych, Assistant Professor at the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna, is a long-term affiliate of Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies. He holds his PhD in history from CEU (2004) and recently completed his Habilitation at the University of Vienna (2012). Among his most important publications are Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914 (Purdue University Press 2009) and a number of articles and collective volumes in European urban history, cultural history of East Central Europe and more specifically the history of architecture, music, monuments, celebrations and urban planning.
