Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination

Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933

AvEmily MacGregor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-26
Mått:176 x 250 x 21 mm
Vikt:670 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Music in Context
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009172783

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

'… richly detailed, deeply informative, and finely written … a valuable addition to the literature both on the symphony as a genre and on twentieth-century music as a whole.' Matthew Mugmon, Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

Innehållsförteckning

1. Between Europe and America: Kurt Weill's Symphony in a Suitcase; 2. Listening for the Intimsphäre in Hans Pfitzner's Symphony in C-sharp Minor: Berlin; 3. Liberalism, Race, and the American West in Roy Harris's Symphony 1933: Boston – New York; 4. Aaron Copland's and Carlos Chávez's Pan American Bounding Line: New York – Mexico City; 5. Arthur Honegger's 'modernised Eroica': Paris – Berlin; 6. The right kind of symphonist: Florence Price and Kurt Weill New York & Chicago 1933–1934 – London, 2020.