Rūta Stanevičiūtė

Rūta Stanevičiūtė is full Professor of Musicology at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her current fields of interest are philosophical and cultural issues in the analysis of contemporary music, music and politics, studies of music reception, and the theory and history of music historiography. She is the author of the monograph on ISCM and Lithuanian music modernization (2015), co-author of the books on Cold War and international exchange of Lithuanian Music (2018), and on (trans)avant-garde movement in Lithuanian music (2021). She has also edited and co-edited several collections of articles, including the recent collections Of Essence and Context (Springer, 2019), Microtonal Music in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical Outlines and Current Practices (Ljubljana University Press, 2020), and Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics before and after 1989 (Academic Studies Press, 2022). In 2005-2010, she was chair of the musicological section at the Lithuanian Composers’ Union. Rūta Stanevičiūtė is a member of the IMS Music and Cultural Studies study group, and of the Association for Advancement of Baltic Studies. Since 2020, she serves as an editor in chief of the journal Lithuanian Musicology. She is the recipient of several (inter)national awards, including the National Prize of Lithuania (2020) and “Gloria Artis” (Poland, 2010).

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