Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination by Emily Macgregor

Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination by Emily Macgregor

The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.

Emily MacGregor is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Music Department, King's College London. She was awarded the 2019 Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association for a distinguished article by a scholar at an early stage of their career, and previously held a Marie Curie Global Fellowship. Dr MacGregor appears regularly on BBC Radio 3.

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ISBN 13	9781009172783
ISBN 10	1009172786
Titel	Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination
Autor	Emily Macgregor
Serie	Music In Context
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Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-01-26
Seitenanzahl	300
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