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Elaine Kelly

@elainekelly.bsky.social

Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World

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Elaine Kelly @elainekelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Next Wednesday afternoon if anyone in Edinburgh is at a loose end...

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Super Cool CFP: Negotiating the Revolt: Punk in Timea of Political Transformation www.ff.cuni.cz/udalost/nego...

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Negotiating the Revolt: Punk in Times of Political Transformation

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Elaine Kelly @elainekelly.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Something for the weekend... music in global history www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA

Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s

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Elaine Kelly @elainekelly.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

By way of introduction, a snapshot of the musical worlds I am currently writing about:

Reiter der Nacht - 1973, anti-apartheid opera by Ernst Hermann Meyer, LP, Nova , 1976

Bayon, LP, 1977 - East German/Cambodian/Cuban band

Miriam Makeba, A Promise, released on the East German Amiga label in 1974

Orchestra of the URBA, Cambodia, 1967 - music arranged and directed by East German teachers

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