Awangarda by Lisa Cooper Vest
In Awangarda, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde framed itself in contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than a rejection of the past, the Polish avant-garde movement emerged as a manifestation of national cultural traditions stretching back into the interwar years and even earlier into the nineteenth century. Polish composers, scholars, and political leaders wielded the promise of national progress to broker consensus across generational and ideological divides. Together, they established an avant-garde musical tradition that pushed against the limitations of strict chronological time and instrumentalized discourses of backwardness and forwardness to articulate a Polish road to modernity. This is a history that resists Cold War periodization, opening up new ways of thinking about nations and nationalism in the second half of the twentieth century.-
In Search of a Concrete Music
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The Doctor Faustus Dossier
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Experimentalism Otherwise
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Composing Modernism
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Nostalgia for the Future
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Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy
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Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
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Brecht at the Opera
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The Art of Appreciation
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Making New Music in Cold War Poland
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Treatise on Musical Objects
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Music Divided
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New Music, New Allies
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In Stravinsky's Orbit
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Revealing Masks
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Music and Politics in San Francisco
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Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music
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Terrible Freedom
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Frontier Figures
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The Musical Legacy of Wartime France
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German Modernism
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A Wayfaring Stranger
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Music and the Elusive Revolution
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Middlebrow Modernism
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition
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Classic Chic
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Beautiful Monsters
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Jewish Identities
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Magician of Sound
"Vest achieves an impressive new contextualization for Polish music: that the actual discourse was composer-led, with multiple agents debating what ‘modernity’ meant to their particular situation. . . This detailed study will surely be required reading for any scholar on the subject."
* Slavic and East European Review *"Vest’s merits as a musicologist and writer include a lucid prose style (scattered with occasional gems of poetic description), a dramatist’s flair for rhetorical structuring, and an archivist’s eye for the telling detail suggesting a revisionist narrative. Her work is also unpretentiously but productively attuned to a wide array of contemporary critical and historiographical theory. . . .Vest packs a lot into an erudite yet readable 200 pages (plus substantial endnotes and bibliography) of tightly plotted, usually persuasive, and sometimes revelatory prose." * Music & Letters *
Lisa Cooper Vest is Assistant Professor of Musicology at University of Southern California
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520344242 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520344243 |
| Title | Awangarda |
| Author | Lisa Cooper Vest |
| Series | California Studies In 20th-Century Music |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2020-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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