From Mass to the hits - how the thousand-year development of art of tones reflects in the popular music of the twentieth century

The lecture of Marko Trobevšek is transparent and focuses on those breaks and great questions in the development of the music of the West, which is visibly – in fact, audibly – reflected in the popular production of the 20th century and can be illustrated with it. On footage, we will walk from the first recorded traces, that is, from the Christian liturgy from the beginning of our counting, somehow to the romantic solos and opera of the 19th century, and from The Beatles to David Bowie. The lecture is intended for non-professionals.

About the lecturer:
Marko Trobevšek (born in 1965) is a teacher of Slovene literature. With the cultural history, that is, with the parallel history of various arts, it has been dealing with the last few years. The interest in various artistic areas stems from his regular work; on the one hand, engaging in literature itself raises questions about the relationships between different arts; on the other hand, the disconnection of objects in a modern school is increasingly felt as a serious defect. In the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik, in the years 2015 and 2017, he presented with a series of ten lectures on cultural history, which ranged from the Middle Ages to the middle of the twentieth century. He tried to synthesize them, but nevertheless demonstrated a great deal of events in literature, painting and music, and demonstrated the possible common denominators.
Trobevšek has translated over ten books (from French, German, English and Spanish, mostly contemporary fiction) and is the author of the book Thousands of Years of Darkness and Light, an outline of the cultural history of the Middle Ages. He has also written some prepared studies and linguistic discussions.