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A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland,
Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Action
- Chapter 1: Sound
- Chapter 2: Silence
- Chapter 3: Song
- Chapter 4: Voice
- Chapter 5: Megaphone
- Chapter 6: Chorus
- Selected References
- Index
About the author
Andrea F. Bohlman is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research concerns sound, affect, and social movements in East Central Europe, as well as the history of sound recording-particularly tape. In 2017, she co-edited a special issue of Twentieth-Century Music with Peter McMurray on tape and tape recording. Her 2016 article "Song, Solidarity, and the Sound Document" in the Journal of Musicology was distinguished with the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society for the best article by a scholar in the early stages of their career.
Summary
A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.
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...the audio and audio-visual archive accompanying Musical Solidarities is one of the strongest examples of the form I have encoun-tered, and a fine achievement in its own right....readers may find they have fully immersed themselves in the embodied world of voice, song, chorus, and protest so fiercely curated by Bohlman in her tour de force of music and sound at a fulcrum of recent Polish and European cultural history.
