Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Heritage and Identity

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well as the ways it affects and influences our perceptions of history, heritage, self and others. Guided by the work of Svetlana Boym and others on nostalgia types (restorative vs reflective, individual vs. collective memory), this conference aims to bring scholars and artists together to deepen our understanding of nostalgia’s powerful presence in music and music-making.

Register for this panel at: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc–qrjMiGdGWomPIseabOVmafF0iyIyf

Panelists:

• Hannah Standiford, “‘Let’s Preserve Campur sari, Our Ancestral Heritage’”: Popular Music, Nostalgia, and Preservation”
• David Wilson, “The Ost(algie) Is Red: Music, Memory, and Post-Modern Cool in Contemporary  Chinese Media”
• Ashley Dao, “Chúng Tôi Đi Mang Theo Quê Hương”: Nostalgic & Empathetic Musicking in the Refugee Community of Little Saigon
• Kian Ravaei, “Composing Nostalgia: A Composer’s Perspective”

Moderator: Caitlin Vaughn Carlos

This program is made possible by the Joyce S. and Robert U. Nelson Fund. Robert Uriel Nelson was a revered musicologist and music professor at UCLA, who, together with his wife, established a generous endowment for the university to make programs like this possible.