PUBLICATIONS
Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2013. (Download book as pdf here.)
“Lutosławski and Stalinism: Contextualizing Artistic and Political Choices around 1950” in Nicholas Reyland and Lisa Jakelski, eds. Lutosławski’s Worlds. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2018.
“Prokofiev, Soviet Influence, and the Music World in Stalinist Central Europe” in Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier, eds. Rethinking Prokofiev. Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Red China in Central Europe: Creating and Deploying Representations of an Ally in Poland and the GDR” in Patryk Babiracki and Austin Jersild, eds. Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War: Exploring the Second World. New York: Palgrave, 2016: 273-301.
“Divided Nations: Building and Destroying the Image of China in East Germany through the 1960s” in Joanne Cho and David Crowe, eds. Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century. New York: Palgrave, 2014. 213-231.
“The East is Red? Images of China in East Germany and Poland through the Sino-Soviet Split” in Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 62/3 (2013): 393-424.
“Israel as Friend and Foe: Shaping Society through Freund- and Feindbilder in East Germany” in Mary Fulbrook and Andrew I. Port, eds. Becoming East Germans: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler. New York, Berghahn Books, 2013. 219-234.
“Orchestrating Identity: Concerts for the Masses and the Shaping of East German Society” in German History 30/3 (September 2012): 412-427.
“Against ‘Pop-Song Poison’ from the West: Early Cold War Attempts to Develop a Socialist Popular Music in Poland and the GDR” in William Risch, ed. Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 43-54.
“The Stalinist State as Patron: Composers and Commissioning in Early Cold War Poland” in Eva Mantzourani, ed. Polish Music since 1945. Krakow: Musica Iagellonica Publishers, 2013. 68-81.
“Instrumentalizing Entertainment and Education: Early Cold-War Music Festivals in East Germany and Poland” in Cathleen M. Giustino, Catherine J. Plum, and Alexander Vari, eds. Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. 27-47.
“Sound and a Socialist Identity: Music in the Stalinist GDR” in Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley, eds. Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 111-123.
“‘Linked by Work and Song:’ Popular Music for the Masses in Early Cold War Poland” in Das politische Lied in Ost- und Südosteuropa [Political Song in Eastern and Southeastern Europe]. Vienna: LIT-Verlag, 2010: 123-133.
“Composing for and with the Party: Andrzej Panufnik and Stalinist Poland” in The Polish Review, vol. 54, no. 3 (2009): 271-288.
"Music" and "The World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace" in The Cold War Encyclopedia, 3 vols. New York: MTM Publishing, 2008.
Featured review of David Monod, Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953. Current Musicology (June 2006): 7-13.
"Mobilization and Control: Music Festivals in Poland and the GDR, 1951-1955," in Mikulas Bek, Geoffrey Chew and Petr Macek, eds., Socialist Realism and Music (Prague: KLP, 2004).
"Musik zur Schaffung des neuen sozialistischen Menschen. Offizielle Musikpolitik des Zentralkommitees der SED in der DDR." [Music for Creating the New Socialist Man: Official Musical Politics of the SED in the GDR.] in Tillmann Bendikowski, Christian Jansen und Dirk Poeppman, eds., Die Macht der Töne: Musik als Mittel politischer Identitätsstiftung [The Power of Tones: Music as a Means of Political Identity Formation in the 20th Century] (Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2003).
Reviews and other
Review of Marina Frolova-Walker, Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics. Slavic Review 76/2 (Summer 2017).
Review of Elaine Kelley, Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic: Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music. German Studies Review 40/2 (July 2017).
Review of Tom Junes, Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent. Slavic Review 75/2 (Summer 2016): 482-483.
Review of Igor Pietraszewski, Jazz in Poland: Improvised Freedom, trans. Lucyna Stetkiewicz. Slavic Review 74/4 (Winter 2015): 919-920.
Review of David Doellinger, Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-Based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany. Central European History 48/3 (September 2015): 447-448.
Review of Moritz Föllmer, Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall. German Studies Review 37/3 (October 2014): 686-688.
Review of Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake, eds. Berlin: Divided City, 1945-1989. German Studies Review 34/3 (October 2011): 702.
Review of Mark Fenemore, Sex, Thugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: Teenage Rebels in Cold War East Germany. German Studies Review 33/1 (February 2010).
Review of Toby Thacker, Music after Hitler, 1945-1955. German Studies Review 32/2 (May 2009).
“Contesting a Politicized Bartok, Posthumously.” Review of Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Music Divided: Bartok's Legacy in Cold War Culture, H-German (March 2009).
"Major and Minor Perspectives on Modern German Music." Review of David Schwartz, Listening Awry: Music and Alterity in German Culture, H-German (October 2007).
"Experience and Experiments Abroad." Review of Amy C. Beal, New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification, H-German (April 2007).
"The Use and Abuse of Music." Review of Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, eds., Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music, H-German (October 2006).
"Beyond Wagner and Adorno: In Search of the Meanings of German Sound." Review of Nora Alter and Lutz Koepnick , eds., Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of Modern German Culture, H-German (February 2006.)
"East German History and Historiography in Fewer than 150 Pages." Review of Günther Heydemann, Die Innenpolitik der DDR, H-German (December 2005).
Program Notes for Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Commencement Concert, The College of Wooster (May 2005).
"Propaganda and the Pluralist Society." Review of Klaus Arnold, Kalter Krieg im Äther. Der Deutschlandsender und die Westpropaganda der DDR, H-German (January 2005).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The Sound of Socialist Friendship: Music and International Solidarity in Cold War Central Europe.” ASEEES, Washington, DC, November 2016.
“Friend or Foe? Socialist Yugoslavia as Other in Central Europe. ASEEES, Lviv, Ukraine, June 2016.
“Lutosławski and Stalinism.” Lutosławski’s Worlds conference, Keele University, UK, March 2015.
“China between Emulation and Condemnation: Responses to the Sino-Soviet Split in East Germany and Poland.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Denver, November 2013.
“Between Friend and Foe: Images of Yugoslavia in East Germany.” German Studies Association conference, Boston, October 2013.
“A Special Enemy: The Image of Israel in Central Europe after 1967." Conference entitled Images of the Other in Central and Eastern Europe: Continuity and Change in Mutual Perceptions between 1968 and 1989, German Historical Institute, Warsaw, November 2012.
“Divided Nations: Images of China in East Germany through the 1960s.” German Studies Association conference, Milwaukee, October 2012.
“The East is Red? Images of China in Poland and the GDR around 1960.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, D.C., November 2011.
“Middle East Meets Mitteleuropa: Images of Israel in the GDR and People’s Poland.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Conference, Los Angeles, November 2010.
“Friend into Foe: The Use of Freund- and Feindbilder in East Germany through the Late 1960s.” German Studies Association Conference, Oakland, October 2010.
“Israel as Friend and Enemy in the Early Cold War: Constructing a Pedagogical Image in Poland and East Germany.” Cold War Interactions Reconsidered, Aleksanteri Institute Conference, Helsinki, Finland, October 2009.
“Socialist-Realist Pop as an Alternative to Rock: Early Cold War Attempts to Create a Socialist Popular Music in Poland and the GDR” and roundtable participant in “What Sovietization Was--and Wasn’t--in East Central Europe: New Historical Approaches.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Philadelphia, November 2008.
“The Struggle of Socialist Realism against Modernism in Early GDR Music Festivals” and roundtable participant in “Making the GDR: Constructing a Socialist Society in the East after 1945.” German Studies Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 2008.
“Composers and the Party Line in the Early Cold War.” Divided Dreamworlds--the Cultural Cold War in East and West Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2008.
“Constructing Friend and Foe in the Socialist-Realist Music of Poland and the GDR.” Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City, April 2008.
“The Construction of Friends and Enemies in the Soviet Bloc.” Panel on Transnational Germany at the Southeast German Studies Workshop, Columbia, South Carolina, March 2008.
"Musical Modernism as Societal Threat: Promoting Socialist-Realist Aesthetics through Early GDR Music Festivals." The American Historical Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., January 2008.
"Orchestrating Engagement: Popular Reception of Socialist-Realist Music in East Germany and Poland." Havighurst Center Annual International Young Researcher's Conference: Culture, Practices, and the Memory of the Cold War, Miami University, Ohio, October 2007.
"Legacies of War, Occupation, and Cold War in Central Europe." Discussant at the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City, April 2007.
"Orchestrated Engagement: Popular Reception of Socialist-Realist Music in East Germany and Poland." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 2006.
"Sounding Out Socialist Realism: Popular Engagement with the New Musical Culture in Stalinist East Germany." German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
"Harmony on the Border: Music and Identity along the New Polish-East German Frontier around 1950." Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City, March 2006.
"Instrumentalizing Peace: Music and the Peace Movement in East Germany and Poland during the Early Cold War." German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, October 2005. [ report ]
"Using Music, Blackboard, and Interactive Syllabi in the History Classroom." Pedagogies and Curricula roundtable. Russia, Central Europe, and the Liberal Arts: A Global Partners Symposium, Richmond, VA, April 2005.
"Experiments in 20th-Century Polish Literature and Culture." Panel Discussant at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH, March 2005.
"Negotiating the New Socialist Reality: Hanns Eisler and His Fellow Composers in the Early GDR." German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., October 6-10, 2004.
"Making Chopin Red: The Commemorations of 1949 in Poland." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, New York City, March 2004.
"Composing the New Party Line: The Fate of Socialist Realism in Poland and the GDR in the mid-1950s." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, November 2003.
"Creating an Identity Both Polish and Socialist: Music in 1950s Poland." Presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City, April 2003.
"German and Austrian Central Europe." Discussant at the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City, April 2003.
"Musik zur Schaffung des neuen sozialistischen Menschen. Offizielle Musikpolitik des Zentralkommitees der SED in der DDR." [Music for Creating the New Socialist Man: Official Musical Politics of the SED in the GDR.] Presented at the Musik und Politik conference at the Katholische Akademie, Schwerte/Bochum, Germany, October 2002.
"The Politics of Music in the GDR and Poland: The Party, Composers and Society, 1948/9-1956/7." Presented at the Junior Scholars Training Seminar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Wye River Plantation, August 2002.
"Mobilization and Control: Music Festivals in the GDR and Poland, 1948-1957." Presented at the Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar of the German Historical Institute, Potsdam, Germany, May 2002.
"Music Festivals in Poland and the GDR, 1951-55." Presented at the International Musicological Colloquium Socialist Realism and Music: Anti-Modernisms and Avant-gardes, Brno, Czech Republic, October 2001.
"Composers' Unions in Poland and the GDR, 1948-1956: Comparing Methods of Composer Self-Organization and Political Control." Presented at the Socialist Realism in Central European Music: 1945-55 conference, Cardiff, Wales, March 2001.
"Politics and Music, Composers and the Party: The Case of the Verband deutscher Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler in the 1950s." Presented at the East Germany Revisited: Research Perspectives Ten Years After conference, Berlin, October 2000.
INVITED TALKS
“Syrian Refugees, the U.S., and Europe.” Carleton Connects Webinar, March 8, 2017.
“The East is Red? Imagining China in People’s Poland and East Germany.” University of Virginia Polish Lecture Series, March 2, 2017.
“Israel and the Soviet Bloc.” Adath Study Group, Minneapolis, February 17, 2017.
“The Sound of Politics: Building Socialism in East Germany through Music.” Germanic-American Institute, February 16, 2017.
“Imagining Yugoslavia in Cold War Central Europe.” Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, June 9, 2016.
“The Importance of Polish, Poland, and Central Europe in the Liberal Arts Setting.” Polish Studies Conference, Columbia University, April 2015.
“The Polish March of 1968, Anti-Semitism, and Emigration.” Adath Study Group, Minneapolis, MN, November 17, 2014.
“Trojan Horse of Pillar of Stability? Germany and Poland, and the Future of Europe.” World Affairs Council of Rochester, NY, December 3, 2013.
“Experiments with Web-Based Multimedia Projects: Student Work with Omeka and Google Sites.” Rewiring the Classroom Symposium, University of Iowa, February 13, 2013.
“Freund- und Feindbilder im Sowjetblock.” German Historical Institute, Warsaw, July 7, 2010.
“Freund- und Feindbilder im Sowjetblock.” Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin), December 3, 2009.
“Understanding Stalinism in East Central Europe through the Prism of Culture.” UT History Department Annual Workshop for Teachers of Social Studies, March 1, 2008.
“Unloved Neighbors: German-Polish Relations in the Modern Era.” Address to the German National Honor Society, UT Chapter, November 19, 2007.
"Between Hitler and Stalin: The Fates of the Czechs, Slovaks, and Austrians in the 20th Century." Keynote Address, Tennessee Geographic Alliance, October 4, 2007.
Moderator, Translator, and Lecturer at the Opening of the Berlin Chapter of the Cold War Museum, June 30, 2007.
"Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics in Berlin." Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 13, 2006.
"Harmony on the Border: Music and Identity along the New Polish-East German Frontier around 1950." UT German Studies Colloquium, March 15, 2006.
"Shostakovich and the Historical Context of the Sixth Symphony and Eighth String Quartet." Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Pre-Concert Lecture, January 5, 2006.
"Andrzej Panufnik and the Totalitarian Myth: The Intersection of Music and Politics in Stalinist Poland." The Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies, March 16, 2005.
"Trojan Horse vs. Trojan Donkey: Contemporary Polish-German Relations in Historical Perspective." Robert Walcott Colloquium, The College of Wooster, November 9, 2004.
"Resisting and Composing the Party Line: Music Festivals in Poland and the GDR in the Early 1950s." East Central European Center and Adam Mickiewicz Endowment Fund Lecture, Columbia University, January 27, 2003.
"The Politics of Music in the GDR and Poland: The Party, Composers and Society, 1948/9-1956/7." Presented at the Colloquium of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, April 2001.
