In Awangarda, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde framed itself in contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than a rejection of the past, the Polish avant-garde movement emerged as a manifestation of national cultural traditions stretching back into the interwar years and even earlier into the nineteenth century.
Polish composers, scholars, and political leaders wielded the promise of national progress to broker consensus across generational and ideological divides. Together, they established an avant-garde musical tradition that pushed against the limitations of strict chronological time and instrumentalized discourses of backwardness and forwardness to articulate a Polish road to modernity.
This is a history that resists Cold War periodization, opening up new ways of thinking about nations and nationalism in the second half of the twentieth century.
| ISBN: | 9780520344242 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2020 |
| Author: | Lisa Cooper Vest |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Series: | California Studies in 20Th-Century Music |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Music reviews and criticism History of music European history |
In Awangarda, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde framed itself in contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than a rejection of the past, the Polish avant-garde movement emerged as a manifestation of national cultural traditions stretching back into the interwar years and even earlier into the nineteenth century.
Awangarda features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Music reviews and criticism, History of music, European history
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Awangarda was written by Lisa Cooper Vest and published by University of California Press
Awangarda has 280 pages
Yes it is part of California Studies in 20Th-Century Music series