Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War

The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc

AvJoanna Bullivant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Music since 1900

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The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised works, and friend of Soviet musicians, Bush proved to be 'a lightning rod' in the national musical culture. His radical vision for British music prompted serious reflections on aesthetics and the rights of artists to private political opinions, as well as influencing the development of state-sponsored music making in East Germany. Rejecting previous characterisations of Bush as political and musical Other, Joanna Bullivant traces his aesthetic project from its origins in the 1920s to its collapse in the 1970s, incorporating discussion of modernism, political song, music theory, opera, and Bush's response to the Soviet music crisis of 1948. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, including recently released documents from MI5, this book constructs new perspectives on the 'cultural Cold War' through the lens of the individual artist.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-15
Mått:170 x 244 x 15 mm
Vikt:504 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Music since 1900
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009158794

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Joanna Bullivant is Lecturer in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford. She has published widely on British composers, modernism, and music and politics. This is her first book.

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'Her [Bullivant's] book will serve as a key reference on the composer, and its perspectives deserve full consideration by anyone studying twentieth-century music and communism … drawing on newly available archival material, it carefully considers key 'images' of Bush - as modernist, as left-wing political activist, national outsider, 'Stalinist'. The result is a nuanced assessment of Bush's ideas and position within both British and East German musical life.' Mike Makin-Waite, Twentieth Century Communism

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Introduction; 1. Bush as modernist: material and performance; 2. Bush as activist: the idea of workers' music; 3. Bush as outsider: music and communism in wartime; 4. Building in the rubble: the winter journey and Lidiče; 5. Bush as Stalinist: the year 1948; 6. Bush and the self: Wat Tyler's rituals of becoming; 7. Bush and East Germany: opera, sex, and the communist body.