Reverberations
Representations of Modernity, Tradition and Cultural Value in-between Central Europe and North America
1st Edition
Published on 8. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-3-631-38638-5 (ISBN)
Description
The contributions in this volume address the ways the two imagined (cultural) spaces commonly designed as 'Central Europe' and 'North America' have mutually attributed meanings to each other and set out to trace patterns and structures resulting from this process. Rather than concentrate on what happens when cultural forms and practices travel across the Atlantic the focus lies on the contexts of their insertion into the 'other' culture. The articles draw attention to how those complexities and contradictions are resolved on an ideological basis in order to produce the kind of stability that is the hallmark of geo-cultural place signification, but also, conversely, the revenge of a spatialized history, the reassertion of their temporality that cultural practices produce when they reverberate in displacement.
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Persons
The Editors: Susan Ingram has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta and is currently working on a postdoctoral project in the History Department at the University of Victoria on the technologies of self-representation. In addition to women's writing and auto/biography, she has also published on topics in Translation Studies.
Markus Reisenleitner has a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and joined the Department of Cultural Studies at the Lingnan University Hong-Kong in the capacity of Associate Professor in 2001. Areas of interest include cultural history and cultural studies (urban studies, theories of space, place and identity, popular culture in public entertainment and spectacle, popular literature and themed environments).
Cornelia Szabó-Knotik has a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Vienna and is Associate Professor at the Institute of Analysis, Theory and History of Music at the University of Music in Vienna. Interested in the aesthetic content as well as the social and cultural importance of music, her main subjects are the history of music-life, the many phenomena of reception, including the importance of new media (film) for the way the musical heritage is confronted.
Content
Contents:
James Deaville: Cakewalk in Waltz Time? African-American Music in
Jahrhundertwende
Vienna - Martina Nußbaumer: '...im gesegneten Lande der Erfindungen so wenig musikalische Erfindung...': Perceptions of American Musical Culture in Vienna around 1900 - Michael Saffle: Cultural Transfer, Identity and Otherness, and Depictions of Musical Vienna in the
New YorkTimes
, 1918-1938 - Peter Stachel: 'I even ask the Putzfrau with the Buerschtl': How the Blues Came to Austria - Barbara Boisits: Austria's
NeueVolxmusik
: The Sound of the Global Village? - Nada Bezi¿: Around the World With Croatian Tamburitza - Cornelia Szabó-Knotik: Dreams of Exotic Beaches - Paulus Ebner: Go East, Young Man! A Comparison of
The ExtraordinaryAdventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
(1924) and
Mr. Pim
(1929-30) - Alexandra Seibel: A Topography of Excess: Visions of Vienna in Erich von Stroheim's
The Wedding March
(1928) - Susan Ingram: Modernity, Modernism and Canadian Film: A
Rhapsody in Two Languages
- Andriy Zayarnyuk: Closing Modernity: Ukrainian Emigration and Images of America - Natalia Shostak: On Local Readings of Overseas Kin: Visions from Ukraine - Johannes Feichtinger: Migration - Cultural Transfer - Scientific Change: Austrian Scholarly Traditions and their Impact on Scholarship and Science in the Americas 1933-1945 - Markus Reisenleitner: Beach-Haus vs. Traum(a) Factory: The L.A. Experience through Central European Eyes - Wladimir Fischer: America as a Circus: Antun Gustav Mato?'s Multiple Perspectives on Modernity - Helga Mitterbauer: Fear - Despair - Insanity: The City of New York as a Vanishing-Point of Accelerated Modernity.