Musical Solidarities by Andrea F Bohlman

Musical Solidarities by Andrea F Bohlman

Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland is a music history of Solidarity, the social movement opposing state socialism in 1980s Poland. The story unfolds along crucial sites of political action under state socialism: underground radio networks, the sanctuaries of the Polish Roman Catholic Church, labor strikes and student demonstrations, and commemorative performances. Through innovative close listenings of archival recordings, author Andrea F. Bohlman uncovers creative sonic practices in bootleg cassettes, televised state propaganda, and the unofficial, uncensored print culture of the opposition. She argues that sound both unified and splintered the Polish opposition, keeping the contingent formations of political dissent in dynamic tension. By revealing the diverse repertories-singer-songwriter verses, religious hymns, large-scale symphonies, experimental music, and popular song-that played a role across the decade, she challenges paradigmatic visions of a late twentieth-century global protest culture that place song and communitas at the helm of social and political change. Musical Solidarities brings together perspectives from historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and sound studies to demonstrate the value of sound for thinking politics. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.

insightful and provocative * Larry Wolff, Revue de musicologie *
Bohlman's (context-)sensitive analysis, her wide-ranging attention, critical approach, and the rich contexts she presents reveal exciting, often hidden dimensions of the Polish opposition movement* Hungarian Studies Review *
...the audio and audio-visual archive accompanying Musical Solidarities is one of the strongest examples of the form I have encoun-tered, and a fine achievement in its own right....readers may find they have fully immersed themselves in the embodied world of voice, song, chorus, and protest so fiercely curated by Bohlman in her tour de force of music and sound at a fulcrum of recent Polish and European cultural history. * Nicholas Reyland, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester *

Andrea F. Bohlman is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research concerns sound, affect, and social movements in East Central Europe, as well as the history of sound recording-particularly tape. In 2017, she co-edited a special issue of Twentieth-Century Music with Peter McMurray on tape and tape recording. Her 2016 article "Song, Solidarity, and the Sound Document" in the Journal of Musicology was distinguished with the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society for the best article by a scholar in the early stages of their career.

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ISBN 13	9780190938284
ISBN 10	0190938285
Title	Musical Solidarities
Author	Andrea F Bohlman
Series	The New Cultural History Of Music Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2020-03-10
Number of pages	344
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