Music in the Balkans [[electronic resource] /] / by Jim Samson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786970103321
• Autore: Samson Jim
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, : Brill, 2013
• ISBN: 90-04-25038-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (752 p.)
• Collana: Balkan studies library ; ; 8
• Disciplina: 780.9496
• Soggetti: Music - Balkan Peninsula - History and criticism; History - Balkan Peninsula
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Exodus -- 2 Ecologies -- 3 Displacements -- 4 Ecumenes -- 5 Centres -- 6 A Makam-Echos Culture -- 7 Eastern Recessions -- 8 Infrastructures -- 9 Nations -- 10 Inspirers -- 11 Mixing It -- 12 Join the Club -- 13 Moderna -- 14 Serbo-Croat -- 15 Placing Genius -- 16 The Curtain Descends -- 17 Diverging Paths -- 18 Another Try -- 19 Birthright of the People -- 20 One Got Away -- 21 All Change -- 22 Conservation -- 23 Balkan Beat -- 24 On Boundaries and Events -- 25 Endgame -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics.