The sixth edition of our ‘Music as Heritage’ summer course, focused on storytelling and music as intangible heritage, community and identity building through contemporary storytelling, as well as musical heritage in the audiovisual world, with the lead of our course directors: Martin Stokes and József Laszlovszky.

Active engagement by students, inspiring exchange between lecturers and participants, the close proximity of musical heritage have become trademark features of our course, also experienced in 2024. We didn’t miss out on the dance house visit either, and an intimate performance by WOMEX Awardee Mónika Lakatos and her husband  Mihály ‘Mazsi’ Rostás.

COURSE FACULTY

Martin Stokes – King’s College London, UK

József Laszlovszky – Central European University, Budapest / Vienna

Laura Leante – University of Durham, Durham, UK

Dafni Tragaki – University of Thessaly, Greece

Yara Salahiddeen – University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

James Plumtree – American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

Judit Varga – Institute for Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister Education, mdw, Vienna, Austria

Pia Hoffman – music supervisor

Jeremy Braverman – Library’s Media Hub, CEU, Vienna, Austria

Zsuzsanna Szálka – Central European University, Budapest / Vienna, Magyar Zene Háza – House of Music, Hungary

Balazs Weyer – Music Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

The course was co-funded by the Open Society University Network and organized in cooperation with the Forum for Folk Art Fund, Music Hungary, and the Cultural Heritage Studies Program, CEU, Budapest, Hungary.

FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

“This course has allowed me to look at my own cultural heritage in an objective way. As a musician who works in both traditional and contemporary fields, I cannot describe the value that this has added onto my professional life.”

“What is special about this programme is that the very best ethnomusicologists, social anthropologists, archaeologists and other social scientists from America, UK, and Central Europe alike, as well as event managers and music practitioners, are all coming together and engaging in intimate formal as well as informal sessions (including trips, dinners, parties, lectures, fieldwork, etc.”