The conference titled "Schlager and Popular (Entertainment) music culture in the 1920s and 1930s" will center on the 130th anniversary of the birth of Oskars Stroks (1893-1975, also known as 'Oskar Strock'), who became wildy popular in that era and was dubbed the 'King of tango'.
Researchers from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Austria, Germany, Serbia and Hong Kong will participate in the conference and a special guest of the conference will be Dmitrijs Dragiļevs, a Riga-born historian and pianist and representative of the Oskars Stroks and Eddie Rossner Musical Heritage Society.
The full conference program is available here and the conference publication, including background and abstracts of the various presentations can be downloaded here.