Red Strains: Music and Communism

Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011

Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held in January 2011 at the British Academy in London.

The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron Curtain has been the subject of much scholarly interest. The importance of communism for musicians outside the communist bloc, by contrast, has received little sustained attention.

This conference aims to examine:

Guantánamo: A Working-Class History

Jana K. Lipman. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley University of California Press, 2009. x + 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-25539-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-25540-1.

Reviewed by Robert S. Robinson (Ohio University)
Published on H-Diplo (March, 2010)
Commissioned by Dustin Walcher

GTMO and Guantánamo: Labor Relations between Cuba and the United States

Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop

The Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop will be holding its initial meeting on May 8th, at 10 AM at the Cornwall Iron Furnace Historic Site in Cornwall. Labor historians from across the state will be gathering to set up a steering committee for the group and to finalize other organizational issues. The Workshop offers PA labor historians the opportunity to meet on a regular basis and to engage with on-going work by fellow scholars aboutthe history of working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.