Awangarda - Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 28
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Lisa Cooper Vest
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-34424-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-520-34424-3
Barcode:	9780520344242

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