Review of Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956–1968, by Lisa Jakelski
It has become second nature for scholars of twentieth-century music to acknowledge that the "modern" of musical "modernism" was socially and culturally constructed, and that the meaning and valence of "new music" were contingent. Together with this insight has come the...
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| description | It has become second nature for scholars of twentieth-century music to acknowledge that the "modern" of musical "modernism" was socially and culturally constructed, and that the meaning and valence of "new music" were contingent. Together with this insight has come the reevaluation of a historiography governed by teleologies of progress, greater interest in the power dynamics determining musical importance, and attention to the processes by which certain musical techniques were defined as "advanced." Yet if "new music" was contingent, on what was it contingent? And if these other accompanying tropes were constructions, by whom, where, when, why, and how were they constructed? [1st paragraph] |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1258942024-06-25T18:48:54Z Review of Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956–1968, by Lisa Jakelski Pollock, Emily R Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section It has become second nature for scholars of twentieth-century music to acknowledge that the "modern" of musical "modernism" was socially and culturally constructed, and that the meaning and valence of "new music" were contingent. Together with this insight has come the reevaluation of a historiography governed by teleologies of progress, greater interest in the power dynamics determining musical importance, and attention to the processes by which certain musical techniques were defined as "advanced." Yet if "new music" was contingent, on what was it contingent? And if these other accompanying tropes were constructions, by whom, where, when, why, and how were they constructed? [1st paragraph] 2020-06-19T20:10:43Z 2020-06-19T20:10:43Z 2018 2020-01-10T16:50:03Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1547-3848 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125894 Pollock, Emily Richmond, Review of Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968, by Lisa Jakelski. Journal of the American Musicological Society 71, 3 (Autumn 2018): p. 851-56 doi 10.1525/jams.2018.71.3.851 ©2018 Author(s) en 10.1525/jams.2018.71.3.851 Journal of the American Musicological Society Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf University of California Press Prof. Pollock via Nina Davis-Millis |
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