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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827462503321

Autore

Bohlman Philip Vilas

Titolo

Focus [[electronic resource] ] : Music, nationalism, and the making of the new Europe / / Philip V. Bohlman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-92050-1

1-282-88615-0

9786612886157

0-203-84449-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Focus on world music

Altri autori (Persone)

BohlmanPhilip Vilas

Disciplina

780.94

Soggetti

Music - Europe - History and criticism

Nationalism in music

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Musical Examples on Compact Disc; Series Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and the Glossary; CHAPTER 1 Music and Nationalism: Why Do We Love to Hate Them?; CHAPTER 2 The European Nation-State in History; CHAPTER 3 National Music; CHAPTER 4 Nationalist Music; CHAPTER 5 In the Belly of the Beast: Music and Nation in Central Europe; CHAPTER 6 Europeans without Nations: Music at the Borders of the Nation-State; CHAPTER 7 Europeans of Many Nations: Music beyond the Borders of the Nation-State

CHAPTER 8 The New Europeanness: New Musics and New NationalismsEpilogue: Renewing Europe; Glossary; CD Notes and Commentary; Bibliography; Discography; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals the



ways in which music and nationalism intersect in the shaping of the New Europe. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe begins with the emergence of the Euro