California Studies in 20th-Century Music – serie
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In Search of a Concrete Music
Häftad, 2012
315 kr
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Pierre Schaeffer's "In Search of a Concrete Music" ("A la recherche d'une musique concrete") has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison …
Awangarda
Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music
Inbunden, 2020
823 kr
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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 …
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
Inbunden, 2002
926 kr
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An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth …
Revealing Masks
Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater
Inbunden, 2001
794 kr
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W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. "Revealing Masks" uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist …
Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition
Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality
Inbunden, 2006
1058 kr
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It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. What this rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that, contrary to much prevailing thought about the great twentieth-century Hungarian composer, Bartok …
New Music, New Allies
American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification
Av Amy C. Beal
Inbunden, 2006
1090 kr
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"New Music, New Allies" documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Beginning with the reeducation programs …
Music Divided
Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture
Inbunden, 2007
755 kr
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"Music Divided" explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, …
Jewish Identities
Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music
Av Klara Moricz
Inbunden, 2008
1058 kr
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"Jewish Identities" mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music,' which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klara Moricz scrutinizes concepts …
German Modernism
Music and the Arts
Häftad, 2007
456 kr
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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through …
Brecht at the Opera
Inbunden, 2008
755 kr
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"Brecht at the Opera" looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed …
Classic Chic
Music, Fashion, and Modernism
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched. Yet little attention has been paid to the association of sound and style in the early twentieth century - a period of remarkable and often parallel developments in both high fashion and the arts, …
Beautiful Monsters
Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
Av Michael Long
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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"Beautiful Monsters" explores the ways in which 'classical' music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture - in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book surveys a complex cultural field and draws …
In Search of a Concrete Music
Inbunden, 2012
940 kr
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Pierre Schaeffer's "In Search of a Concrete Music" ("A la recherche d'une musique concrete") has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison …
Frontier Figures
American Music and the Mythology of the American West
Av Beth E. Levy
Inbunden, 2012
1190 kr
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"Frontier Figures" is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses …
Frontier Figures
American Music and the Mythology of the American West
Av Beth E. Levy
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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"Frontier Figures" is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses …
Experimentalism Otherwise
The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Inbunden, 2011
667 kr
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In "Experimental Otherwise", Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by 'experimental' in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time - New York City, 1964 - Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's Atlas …
Experimentalism Otherwise
The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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In "Experimental Otherwise", Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by 'experimental' in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time - New York City, 1964 - Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's Atlas …
Music and Politics in San Francisco
From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War
Inbunden, 2011
579 kr
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This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws …
Music and the Elusive Revolution
Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981
Av Eric Drott
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the …
Musical Legacy of Wartime France
Inbunden, 2013
755 kr
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For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultural battle that reflected the war itself. German occupying authorities promoted German music at the expense of French, while the Vichy administration pursued projects of national …
Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
Inbunden, 2014
535 kr
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Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw--a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. A twelve-tone piece in three languages …
Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy
Inbunden, 2015
579 kr
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During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles classical, rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, and jazz competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland …
Nostalgia for the Future
Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews
Av Luigi Nono, Angela Ida De Benedictis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
843 kr
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Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures …
Nostalgia for the Future
Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews
Av Luigi Nono, Angela Ida De Benedictis m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures …
Making New Music in Cold War Poland
The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968
Inbunden, 2016
579 kr
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Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the …
Treatise on Musical Objects
An Essay across Disciplines
Inbunden, 2017
843 kr
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The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrete to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the …
Treatise on Musical Objects
An Essay across Disciplines
Häftad, 2017
403 kr
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The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrete to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the …
Doctor Faustus Dossier
Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951
Inbunden, 2018
869 kr
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Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and …
Doctor Faustus Dossier
Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951
Häftad, 2018
324 kr
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Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and …
Middlebrow Modernism
Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses …
