Awangarda
Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2020
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-520-34424-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 interwar years and even earlier into the nineteenth century. Polish composers, scholars, and political leaders wielded the promise of national progress to broker consensus across generational and ideological divides. Together, they established an avant-garde musical tradition that pushed against the limitations of strict chronological time and instrumentalized discourses of backwardness and forwardness to articulate a Polish road to modernity. This is a history that resists Cold War periodization, opening up new ways of thinking about nations and nationalism in the second half of the twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
"??Vest achieves an impressive new contextualization for Polish music: that the actual discourse was composer-led, with multiple agents debating what 'modernity' meant to their particular situation. . . . This detailed study will surely be required reading for any scholar on the subject." * Slavic and East European Review * "Vest's merits as a musicologist and writer include a lucid prose style (scattered with occasional gems of poetic description), a dramatist's flair for rhetorical structuring, and an archivist's eye for the telling detail suggesting a revisionist narrative. Her work is also unpretentiously but productively attuned to a wide array of contemporary critical and historiographical theory. . . .Vest packs a lot into an erudite yet readable 200 pages (plus substantial endnotes and bibliography) of tightly plotted, usually persuasive, and sometimes revelatory prose." * Music & Letters *More details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
33 b-w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-34424-2 (9780520344242)
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E-Book
12/2020
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€63.49
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Person
Lisa Cooper Vest is Assistant Professor of Musicology at University of Southern California
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Backwardness (Zaleglosc): Defining Musical Modernity in Poland before and after World War II
2. Lack (Brak): The Shifting Status of the Artist-Intellectual Class during the Thaw
3. The Dissemination of Culture (Upowszechnienie kultury): Rebuilding Elite Institutions and Educating Elite Audiences
4. Lag (Opoznienie): Genius Construction and Looking Back to Move Forward
5. Modernity (Nowoczesnosc): Boguslaw Schaeffer and the Cult of the New
6. Awangarda: The Polish Avant-Garde as Tradition
7. Backward and Forward: The Polish Avant-Garde as Progress
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Backwardness (Zaleglosc): Defining Musical Modernity in Poland before and after World War II
2. Lack (Brak): The Shifting Status of the Artist-Intellectual Class during the Thaw
3. The Dissemination of Culture (Upowszechnienie kultury): Rebuilding Elite Institutions and Educating Elite Audiences
4. Lag (Opoznienie): Genius Construction and Looking Back to Move Forward
5. Modernity (Nowoczesnosc): Boguslaw Schaeffer and the Cult of the New
6. Awangarda: The Polish Avant-Garde as Tradition
7. Backward and Forward: The Polish Avant-Garde as Progress
Notes
Bibliography
Index