Joep Janssens at the "Sounds of Fascism" conference in Bonn

This conference, covering the period from the interwar years to the present day, focuses on the political uses of sound as a means of persuasion, amplification, and expansion, through the aestheticization—musical, oratorical, event-based—of fascist politics. It also examines the conditions under which these uses are implemented, through the imaginaries that help shape them, the media that support them, and the practices that implement them. Its epistemic framework welcomes interdisciplinary presentations from the fields of political science and history, sound studies, media studies, musicology, and cultural sociology.

The detailed program