| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
California studies in 20th-century music ; 28 |
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California studies in 20th-century music ; 28.
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| Contents |
Backwardness (Zaległość) : Defining Musical Modernity in Poland before and after WWII -- Lack (Brak) : The Shifting Status of the Artist-Intellectual Class during the Thaw -- The Dissemination of Culture (Upowszechnienie Kultury) : Rebuilding Elite Institutions and Educating Elite Audiences -- Lag (Opóźnienie) : Genius Construction and Looking Back to Move Forward -- Modernity (Nowoczesność) : Bogusław Schäffer and The Cult of the New -- Awangarda : The Polish Avant-garde as Tradition -- Backward and Forward : The Polish Avant-garde as Progress |
| Summary |
"In Awangarda, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde stood in stark contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than representing 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2020) |
| Subject |
Music -- Poland -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Avant-garde (Music) -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
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MUSIC / History & Criticism
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Avant-garde (Music)
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Music
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020016913 |
| ISBN |
0520975421 |
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9780520975422 |
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