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Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music (Hardcover)
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Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Society and Culture
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The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining
feature of twentieth-century music history. The displacement of
European musics and musicians is a defining feature of
twentieth-century music history. Musical Journeys uses vignettes of
migratory moments in the works of Hanns Eisler in Paris, Matyas
Seiber in London, and Istvan Anhalt in Montreal to investigate
concepts of identity construction and musical aesthetics in the
light of migratory experiences. Moving between the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, proto-fascist Hungary, fascist Germany, war-time Britain,
post-war Canada, and socialist East Germany, the book explores
aspects of musical migrant culture including creative responses to
nationalist ideas and politics, the role of cultural institutions
in promoting (or censoring) the works of immigrant composers, and
the complex interaction between Jewish identity and memory. It
contends that an approach to music through the lens of migration
can challenge and enrich socio-cultural understandings of music as
well as conceptions of music historiography. Drawing on exile,
diaspora, migration and mobilities studies, critical theory, and
post-colonial and cultural studies, Musical Journeys weaves
detailed biographical and contextual historical knowledge and
analytical insights into music into an intricate fabric that does
justice to the complexity of the musical migratory experience.
FLORIAN SCHEDING is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of
Bristol.
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