As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers
both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding
societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the
recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an
extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This pioneering set of
studies traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music
cultures of Central and Eastern Europe from the first harbingers of
change in the 1970s through the revolutionary period of 1989–90
to more recent developments. During the period of state socialism,
both the reinterpretation of the folk music heritage and the
domestication of Western forms of music offered ways to resist and
redefine imposed identities. With the removal of state control and
support, music was free to channel and to shape emerging forms of
cultural identity. Stressing both continuity and disjuncture in a
period of enormous social and cultural change, this volume focuses
on the importance and evolution of traditional and popular musics
in peasant communities and urban environments in Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Russia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, the former
Yugoslavia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria. Written by longtime
specialists in the region and considering both religious and
secular trends, these essays examine music as a means of expressing
diverse aesthetics and ideologies, participating in the formation
of national identities, and strengthening ethnic affiliation.
Retuning Culture provides a rich understanding of music’s role at
a particular cultural and historical moment. Its broad range of
perspectives will attract readers with interests in cultural
studies, music, and Central and Eastern Europe. Contributors.
Michael Beckerman, Donna Buchanan, Anna Czekanowska, Judit
Frigyesi, Barbara Rose Lange, Mirjana Lausevic, Theodore Levin,
Margarita Mazo, Steluta Popa, Ljerka Vidic Rasmussen, Timothy Rice,
Carol Silverman, Catherine Wanner
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