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Opera and Ideology in Prague - Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Opera and Ideology in Prague - Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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An overview of the history of the Prague musical community from
1900 until the end of democracy in 1938, with attention to polemics
about "Czechness" and "modernism." This study presents a history
and analysis of the Prague musical community from 1900 until the
end of democracy in 1938. Opera and Ideology in Prague not only
narrates the fascinating history of a local musical community but
also reveals much about music and culture in Europe. The
fin-de-siècle period was dominated by the musicologist Zdenek
Nejedly's polemics regarding the competing "legacies" of Smetana
and Dvorák and the merits of modernism.After Czech independence in
1918, a new generation of musicians accepted modernist foreign
influences only with extreme hesitation. The 1926 Prague premiere
of Berg's opera Wozzeck and the ascendancy of a young groupof
avant-garde composers changed the cultural climate entirely,
providing new ground for the exploration of jazz, neo-classicism,
quarter tones, and socialist music. As the Czechoslovak Republic
drew to a close, a resurgence of nationalism appeared in the
musical expressions of both Czechs and German-Bohemians. The
analyses of operas and tone poems by Novák, Ostrcil, Zich,
Jeremiás, Hába, Kricka, and Suk provide a cross-section of
musical life in early twentieth-century Prague, as well as a series
of interpretations of Czech cultural identity. Populist endeavors
such as jazz and neo-classicism represented some of the ways in
which composers of the 1930s attempted to regain anaudience
alienated by modernism: in this respect, the trends in Prague
mirrored those of the rest of Europe. Brian Locke is Assistant
Professor of Music History at Western Illinois University, Macomb.
He has written extensively on twentieth-century music, including
Czech operatic and symphonic works and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.
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