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Making New Music in Cold War Poland

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Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festival's worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists). This book explores social interactions within institutional frameworks and how these interactions shaped the practices, values, and concepts associated with new music.

Title Making New Music in Cold War Poland : The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968 / Lisa Jakelski.
Publisher Berkeley, CA : University of California Press
Creation Date [2016]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Sounds of Revolution? -- 2. Building an Empty Frame -- 3. A Raucous Education -- 4. From Warsaw to the World -- 5. Mobilizing Performers, Scores, and Avant-Gardes -- 6. The Limits of Exchange -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Concert Program of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, 10-21 October 1956 -- Appendix 2: Biographical Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Series California Studies in 20th-Century Music
19
Extent 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, tables.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010701181205171
MARC RECORDS
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