From Poland with Music

100 Years of Polish Composers Abroad (1918-2018)

AvMarlena Wieczorek

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

From Poland with Music: 100 Years of Polish Composers Abroad (1918–2018) is the first comprehensive treatment of the theme of emigration among Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The book focuses on classical composers (e.g. Paderewski, Weinberg, Panufnik), but extends to important figures from the worlds of jazz and film music (Komeda, Makowicz, Kaczmarek, Korzeniowski). The first part of the book contains a series of essays on overarching themes related to the Polish musical diaspora, while the second part comprises an engaging collection of interviews with experts concerning the life and legacy of selected composers, with revealing insights into the artists’ personalities and entertaining anecdotes from their lives. Ignacy Jan Paderewski was not only an outstanding pianist and composer, but also the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of free Poland in 1919. Bronisław Kaper was the first Polish composer to win an Oscar in 1954 for Lili, and Henryk Wars scored 60 projects for Columbia, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, United Artists and Paramount. From Poland with Music recalls all of these stories, revealing just how impactful Polish composers have been on the international music scene in the last 100 years.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-11
Mått:176 x 250 x 26 mm
Vikt:857 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
ISBN:9781785514074

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Tonsättare och låtskrivare inom Kultur
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Dr Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska is a Researcher at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr Mariusz Gradowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw and Lecturer on the postgraduate course ‘Music and Media’ at Collegium Civitas. He also works regularly with Polish Radio 2 and The Frederic Chopin Institute. Dr Grzegorz Piotrowski is Head of the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Gdańsk and lecturer at the Music Academy in Gdańsk. Dr Marlena Wieczorek is a musicologist, cultural manager, and the president of the MEAKULTURA Foundation which is responsible for this project. She is a two-time holder of the MKiDN (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) scholarship. Marlena devised the concept for this book.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I – Music in Motion: ContextsThe History of Music Often Means the History of EmigrantsLife Choices: Causes and Effects of MigrationTowards the Four Corners of the World: Directions of EmigrationMusic in Transit: Currents and StylesDo We Know Them? Does the World Know Them? The Presence of Musical ‘Nomads’ in Poland and AbroadIndependent and True to Themselves: The Migration of Young Polish ComposersThe Paths of Film MusicParticular Existences: Jazz and Popular Music ComposersEnclaves of Young Polish JazzRock JourneysComposing as an AutobiographyWe Keep Wandering: On Existential Migration Part II – Composers’ ProfilesBiographies of 63 Polish émigré composers, with pen-drawn portraits of each (a full list of names can be supplied if required)