Twentieth-century music and politics : essays in memory of Neil Edmunds / / Pauline Fairclough

• Autore: Fairclough Pauline
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2016; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.9/04
• Soggetto topico: Music - Political aspects - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: EdmundsNeil <1966-2008.>
• Note generali: "An Ashgate Book"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Musical Examples; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'A World of Marxist Orthodoxy'? Alan Bush's Wat Tyler in Great Britain and the German Democratic Republic; 2 Stravinsky's Petrushka: Modernizing the Past, Russianizing the Future; or, How Stravinsky Learned to Be an Exile; 3 Détente to Cold War: Anglo-Soviet Musical Exchanges in the Late Stalin Period; 4 Front Theatre: Musical Films and the War in Nazi Cinema ; 5 'Those damn foreigners': Xenophobia and British Musical Life During the First Half of the Twentieth Century6 'An angry ape': Some Preliminary Thoughts about Orango; 7 A Bridge between Two Worlds: The Founding Years of the Warsaw Autumn Festival; 8 Winning Hearts and Minds? Soviet Music in the Cold War Struggle against the West; 9 Preserving the Façade of Normal Times: Musical Life in Belgrade under the German Occupation (1941-1944); 10 Musical Commemorations in Post-Civil War Spain: Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto Heroico ; 11 The Racialization and Ghettoization of Music in the General Government12 'I Only Need the Good Old Budapest': Hungarian Cabaret in Wartime London; 13 Irish Nationalism, British Imperialism and the Role of Popular Music; 14 Shostakovich as Film Music Theorist; 15 Diaspora, Music and Politics: Russian Musical Life in Shanghai during the Interwar Period; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as this volume demonstrates, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, while key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and mus
• Titolo autorizzato: Twentieth-century music and politics
• ISBN: 1-315-54949-2; 1-317-00580-5; 1-317-00579-1; 1-283-85994-7; 1-4094-5508-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779338003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II