Engaging Cultural Ideologies - Classical Composers and Musical Life in Poland 1918-1956

Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland's cultural practices on the genesis and performance of contemporary Polish compositions from 1918 to 1956.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Between the World Wars: Performing a Utopian Vision
2. World War II: Continuity And Disruption
3. From War to Socialism: Elitism versus Accessibility 1944-1948
4. Negotiating a New Path 1949-1953
5. Ideological Turbulence, Hopeful Composers 1954-1956
6. Socialist Ramifications
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Cindy Bylander is a musicologist and independent scholar living in Fort Collins, Colorado. A recipient of the Polish Composers’ Union’s Honorary Award and Poland’s Gloria Artis Bronze medal, her research focuses on twentieth-century musical life in Poland.

Summary

Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland’s cultural practices, especially those concerning issues such as nationalism, elitism, and race, on the genesis and performance of contemporary Polish compositions from 1918 to 1956. Based on extensive archival research that includes the first comprehensive examination of concert programs in Poland as well as a series of case studies focused on composers’ challenges in the midst of nearly constant turmoil, Bylander brings fresh insights into the public and private power struggles concerning artistic freedom that were animated by similar points of contention across seemingly diverse historical eras.

Product details

• Authors: Cindy Bylander
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2022
• EAN: 9798887190211
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-021-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Series: Polish Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Popular Culture, Eastern Europe, European History, 20th Century, Poland, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music