Music And Postwar Transitions In The 19th And 20th Centuries

Author : Anaïs Fléchet
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800738951
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Anaïs Fléchet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Napoleonic Wars to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, via the great world conflicts of the 20th century, Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of ‘postwar transitions’ in the field of music and to demonstrate the influence that musicians, composers, critics, institutions, and publics have had on the period that follows conflict. Leading historians, political scientists, psychologists and musicologists explore the roles of music and culture in demobilization, reconstruction, memory, reconciliation, revenge, and nationalist backlash. Moving beyond the popular conception of music as an agent of peace, this study reveals music’s more complex and ambivalent role in the process of transition from war to peace.

Author : Anaïs Fléchet
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800738943
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Anaïs Fléchet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of the idea of 'postwar transition' in the field of music and to demonstrate how the contribution of musicians, composers, and their publics have influenced contemporary understandings of war. At the intersection of four domains including: the relationship between music and war culture, commemorative and consolatory dimensions of music, migration and exile, and the links between music, cultural diplomacy, and propaganda, leading historians, political scientists, psychologists, and musicologists explore disruptions and connections to music through the backdrop of war. In turn, this volume sheds new light on what has been a blind spot in a growing historiography"--

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782385010
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and International History in the Twentieth Century written by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520068544
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music at the Turn of Century written by Joseph Kerman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn-of-the-century modernists were involved, implicated, and often locked in a struggle with all the formidable legions of nineteenth-century music. The focus of this collection, essays originally published in the journal 19th-Century Music, is upon modernism in relation to its immediate heritage. Major composers whose reflections on the past come under consideration include Debussy, Mahler, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Ives, while older composers such as Liszt and Wolf figure as precursors of modernist harmony and sensibility. The contributors include many leading musicologists, critics, and music theorists known for their work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Some of the essays deal closely with the new musical languages that evolved in that era others deal with reception and performance issues. Many of them bring together insights from various sub-disciplines to achieve a richer kind of composite scholarship than is available to traditional musical studies.

Author : Kerry Murphy
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
ISBN 13 : 0734038011
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of the New: Louise Hanson-Dyer, Publisher and Collector written by Kerry Murphy and published by Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the Australian music publisher and patron Louise Hanson-Dyer brings together, for the first time, an international group of scholars with expertise in the history of early French musicology and sound recording; fine art and design; and critical editions and music publishing in France. With a focus on the interwar period, it aims to synchronise Hanson-Dyer’s Melbourne and Paris ventures, seeing her work in a global perspective and showing how she played a significant role in the transnational cultural relationship between Australia and France. Hanson-Dyer had vision and objectives and the drive to realise them; this volume situates the consolidation of her role as cultural activist in early twentieth-century Europe and Australia and presents new light on her publication of critical musical editions, her art collections and early sound recordings.

Author : Sönke Kunkel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390856
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Humanity written by Sönke Kunkel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.

Author : Nadja Klopprogge
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805394150
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Histories written by Nadja Klopprogge and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational connections between African American and German histories in the “century of extremes” are often misunderstood or overlooked. Intimate Histories uncovers important links and sites of struggle in the history of race, the Nazi period, and the fight for civil rights in both East and West Germany. Historical investigations take their points of departure from anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilizations, or casual sexual, cross-racial encounters to frame the shared pasts of African Americans against broader developments surrounding German Fascism, the Cold War, and global struggles for Black liberation.

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135597944
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918 written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.

Author : John Mauceri
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300265476
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War on Music written by John Mauceri and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created voices that were unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia; the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of experimental music—what he calls “the institutional avant-garde”—as the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold War.

Author : Neil Gregor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789200334
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams of Germany written by Neil Gregor and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale.