Professor, Department of Musicology
Jānis Kudiņš is a graduate of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (in 1997 he obtained a Bachelor degree, in 1999 he obtained Master degree). In 2008, he defended his doctoral work, gaining the Dr. art. degree in musicology.
He has been a lecturer at the JVLMA since 1996 (Professor since 2017), as a Researcher he also works in the Center for Scientific Research (was Head on Center from 2008 to 2012). From 2008 to 2017 he was the Head of the Department of Musicology.
His major interests in musicology are linked with several issues. These issues include Latvian and Baltic music history in 19th–20th century; the concepts of Style, Modernism and Post-Modernism in music and art; methodology of scientific research; European popular music culture of 20th century first half.
He is author of several scientific publications (including two monographs) in Latvian and English. He also actively participates in various international seminars and conferences in Latvia and other countries.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
Kudiņš, Jānis. 2023. "Vu akhin zol ikh geyn? / Tell Me Where Can I Go?" A Study of a Well-Known Song and the Author of Its Music. Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture, No. 68. Münster: Waxmann Verlag GmbH, p.ISBN 978-3-8309-4675-5
Kudiņš, Jānis. 2021. Fragmentary and Moderate Modernism in Latvian Music History. Some Local Features and Peculiarities. Culture Crossroads, No. 19. Riga: Latvian Academy of Culture, eds. Anda Laķe, Ilona Kunda, Pp. 111–125. ISSN 2500-9974
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55877/cc.vol19.31
Kudiņš, Jānis. 2020. The Rock Opera Lāčplēsis (Bearslayer, 1988): Symbolic Meaning in the Historical Change Process and the Cultural Memory of Latvia. Lietuvos Muzikologija / Lithuanian Musicology, No. 21, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, eds. Rūta Stanevičiūte, Rima Povilionienė, Pp. 94–111. ISSN 1392-9313
Open access http://zurnalai.lmta.lt/en/issue/lietuvos-muzikologija-nr-21/
Kudiņš, Jānis. 2020. Folk Music Quotations and Allusions in Latvian Composers’ Neo-Romantic Symphonic Music in the Last Decades of the 20th Century and Early 21st Century. New Sound, No. 55, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, ed. Mirjana Veselinovič-Hofman, Pp. 213–238. ISSSN 0354-4362 (0354-818X)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2055213k
Kudiņš, Jānis (2019). Phenomenon of the Baltic Singing Revolution in 1987–1991: Three Latvian Songs as Historical Symbols of Non-Violent Resistance. Muzikologija / Musicology, No. 26/1, Journal of the Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, ed. Ivana Medic, Pp. 27–39. ISSN 1450-9814.
DOI: /https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ1926027K