AESTHETICS OF MUSIC - ESTETIKA MUZIKE

About the conference:

The international conference “Aesthetics of Music” will be held for the first time this year as a part of the Nišville Jazz Festival 2023 in the building of the Officer’s Club  in Niš. This interdisciplinary gathering will bring together aestheticians and philosophers of music, as well as sociologists, musicologists, music theorists and music critics. At the meeting, theorists from different parts of Europe and the region – Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia – will present the results of their research of music.

The special guest of this year’s conference will be prof. Dr. Krzysztof Guczalski, head of the Department of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy of the famous Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Guczalski’s primary area of research is the philosophy of music. He is the author of several books in the field of aesthetics (including the book „The meaning of music – meanings in music. An attempt at a general theory against the background of Susanne Langer’s aesthetics“), and he published his papers in the world’s greatest journals, such as The British Journal of Aesthetics and Philosophia.

O konferenciji:

Naučni skup sa međunarodnim učešćem „Estetika muzike“ ove godine će prvi put biti organizovan u sklopu Nišville džez festivala 2023 u zgradi Oficirskog doma u Nišu. Ovaj interdisciplinarni skup okupiće istraživače koji na različite načine pristupaju muzici – estetičare i filozofe muzike, kao i sociologe, muzikologe, teoretičare muzike i muzičke kritičare. Na skupu će teoretičari iz Evrope i regiona – Poljske, Austrije, Slovenije, Hrvatske i Srbije – predstaviti rezultate svojih istraživanja.

Specijalni gost ovogodišnjeg skupa biće prof. dr Kšištof Gučalski (Krzysztof Guczalski), upravnik katedre za estetiku na Institutu za filozofiju čuvenog Jagelonskog univerziteta u Krakovu. Gučalski se primarno bavi filozofijom muzike, a autor je više knjiga iz oblasti estetike (uključujući i knjigu The meaning of music – meanings in music. An attempt at a general theory against the background of Susanne Langer’s aesthetics), kao i naučnih radova u istaknutim svetskim časopisima, poput British Journal of Aesthetics i Philosophia.

About the organizer:

Nišville Jazz Festival realizes this conference in cooperation with the Cultural Club “Prejaka reč“, and the editor of the program is dr. Dušan Milenković, an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš. Milenković is one of the few theoreticians who deal with the aesthetics of music in the region. He defended his Ph.D. thesis “The role of form in the aesthetics of popular music” at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. He is the author of over 20 papers in the field of aesthetics, a member of the Steering Committee of the Serbian Association for Aesthetics, and one of the founders of the European Network for the Philosophy of Music.

O organizatoru:

Nišville jazz festival realizuje ovaj naučni skup u saradnji sa Klubom „Prejaka reč“, udruženjem iz Niša koje se bavi promocijom kulture, a urednik programa je dr Dušan Milenković, asistent na Filozofskom fakultetu u Nišu. Milenković je jedan od retkih teoretičara koji se bave estetikom muzike na našim prostorima. Doktorirao je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Novom Sadu sa tezom „Uloga forme u estetici popularne muzike“. Autor je preko 20 naučnih radova iz oblasti estetike, član Upravnog odbora Estetičkog društva Srbije, kao i jedan od osnivača Evropske mreže za filozofiju muzike.