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Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Brigid Cohen is Assistant Professor of Music at New York University. Her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century avant-gardes, questions of migration and diaspora, theories of cosmopolitanism and relationships between music, the visual arts and literature. Her work has been recognized with awards from the American Musicological Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Paul Sacher Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Research Institute. She is a recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. Klappentext Cohen traces a history of modernism in migration through the composer Stefan Wolpe, from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College. "The importance of this well-researched book on German-born composer Stefan Wolpe lies as much in descriptions of milieux as in its treatment of Wolpe and his music....The book compares favorably with extant Wolpe scholarship....It will be required reading for scholars of 20th-century music." --Choice Zusammenfassung The German-Jewish emigre composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism! with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus to bebop to Black Mountain College. This first full-length study of this often overlooked composer brings together perspectives from the fields of music! visual art! literature and migration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Wolpe's self-revelatory poetics and critical reflections, circa 1951; 2. Weimar-era montage and avant-garde community; 3. 'Amalgamated' musics and national visions in 1930s Palestine; 4. The mid-century poetics and politics of experimental community; Epilogue: the witnessing memory; Select bibliography.

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Authors Brigid Cohen, Brigid (New York University) Cohen, Brigid Maureen Cohen, Cohen Brigid
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 13.09.2012
 
EAN 9781107003002
ISBN 978-1-107-00300-2
No. of pages 340
Series New Perspectives in Music Hist
New Perspectives in Music Hist
New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history

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