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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.
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the
dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus
far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and
underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music
history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and
Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume
that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between
music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms.
Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the
theme through a wide range of case studies, incorporating art,
popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas, such as
gender and post-colonial studies, critical theory, migration, and
diaspora. The book is structured in three stages silence,
acculturation, and theory that move from silence to sound and from
displacement to placement. The range of subject matter within these
sections is deliberately hybrid and mirrors the eclectic nature of
displacement itself, with case studies exploring Nazi Anti-Semitism
in musical displacement; musical life in the Jewish community of
Palestine; Mahler, Jewishness, and Jazz; the Irish Diaspora in
England; and German Exile studies, among others. Featuring articles
from such scholars as Ruth F. Davis, Sean Campbell, Jim Samson,
Sydney Hutchinson, and Europea series co-editor Philip V. Bohlman,
the volume exerts an appeal reaching beyond music and musicology to
embrace all areas in the humanities concerned with notions of
displacement, migration, and diaspora."
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