Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of a New Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of a New Europe write by Philip V. Bohlman. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of a New Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe surveys the intersection of music and nationalism by tracing its historical development and documenting its persistence today. Contrasting different types of music reveals how music expresses core ideas of nationalism, for example, folk music in the nineteenth century and popular music in the twenty-first.
Focus
Focus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Focus write by Philip Vilas Bohlman. This book was released on 2010. Focus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe
Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe write by Philip V. Bohlman. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals the ways in which music and nationalism intersect in the shaping of the New Europe. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe begins with the emergence of the European nation-state in the Middle Ages and extends across long periods during which Europe’s nations used music to compete for land and language, and to expand the colonial reach of Europe to the entire world. Bohlman contrasts the "national" and the "nationalist" in music, examining the ways in which their impact on society can be positive and negative -- beneficial for European cultural policy and dangerous in times when many European borders are more fragile than ever. The New Europe of the twenty-first century is more varied, more complex, and more politically volatile than ever, and its music resonates fully with these transformations.
Nation and Classical Music
Nation and Classical Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nation and Classical Music write by Matthew Riley. This book was released on 2016. Nation and Classical Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes, sounds and resonances to be found in the repertory of each of the nations. Its scope is broad, extending well beyond the period 1848-1914 when national music flourished most conspicuously. The interplay of music and nation encompasses the oratorios of Handel, the open-air music of the French Revolution and the orchestral works of Beethoven and Mendelssohn and extends into the mid-twentieth century in the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Copland. The book addresses the representation of the national community, the incorporation of ethnic vernacular idioms into art music, the national homeland in music, musical adaptations of national myths and legends, the music of national commemoration and the canonisation of national music. Bringing together insights from nationalism studies, musicology and cultural history, it will be essential reading not only for musicologists but for cultural historians and historians of nationalism as well. MATTHEW RILEY is Reader in Music at the University of Birmingham. The late ANTHONY D. SMITH was Professor Emeritus of Nationalism andEthnicity at the London School of Economics.
Understanding Scotland Musically
Understanding Scotland Musically - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Scotland Musically write by Simon McKerrell. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Understanding Scotland Musically available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 led to a greater scrutiny of regional and national identities within the UK, set within the wider context of cultural globalisation. This volume brings together a range of authors that sets out to explore the increasingly plural and complex notions of Scotland, as performed in and through traditional music. Traditional music has played an increasingly prominent role in the public life of Scotland, mirrored in other Anglo-American traditions. This collection principally explores this movement from historically text-bound musical authenticity towards more transient sonic identities that are blurring established musical genres and the meaning of what constitutes ‘traditional’ music today. The volume therefore provides a cohesive set of perspectives on how traditional music performs Scottishness at this crucial moment in the public life of an increasingly (dis)United Kingdom.
