| Series |
New perspectives in music history and criticism
New perspectives in music history and criticism. ^A359753
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| Contents |
Introduction: Toward a historiography of modernism in migration. Modernism, migration, and Wolpe ; Retheorizing musical modernism ; Beyond national frameworks and studies of exile and assimilation ; Migrant cosmopolitanism ; On the interpretation of modernist works -- Wolpe's self-revelatory poetics and critical reflections, circa 1951. "The real clarification and real-true solution of human particularities" ; "Held in" ; Form and broken form ; "The un-losable friendship of human recognition" ; Wolpe's self-revelation and self-narration -- Weimar-era montage and avant-garde community. Part 1: At the Bauhaus ; "What would we be in a position to do without school?" ; Montage: The ethics of estrangement, formalization, and reclamation ; Part 2: After the Bauhaus ; Zeus und Elida ; Shock and experimental form -- "Amalgamated" musics and national visions in 1930s Palestine. "Amalgamated" idioms and Mandate-era politics ; Wolpe's political position in Palestine ; Wolpe's "full concern" and pedagogical presence ; "If it be my fate ..." ; The "dream-panorama" of Jewish music ; "But only if it existed: the most spiritual community -- The mid-century poetics and politics of experimental community. The Oboe Quartet: community life and memory ; Resisting the "holes of oblivion": Wolpe, Arendt, and human plurality ; Transforming "things" into "beings": Wolpe, Blucher, and "organic modes" ; Wolpe's mid-century communities in profile. Bebop ; Eighth Street Artists' Club ; Black Mountain College ; Heterotopia -- Epilogue: The witnessing memory. No direction home ; The self-narrator's belonging ; Haunted objects ; The "discontinuum" of testament ; Interpretative communities and publics. |
| Abstract |
The German-Jewish emigre composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop and the kibbutz movement to bebop, Abstract Expressionism and Black Mountain College. This is the first full-length study of this often overlooked composer, launched from the standpoint of the mass migrations that have defined recent times. Drawing on over 2000 pages of unpublished documents, the author explores how avant-garde communities across three continents adapted to situations of extreme cultural and physical dislocation. A conjurer of unexpected cultural connections, Wolpe serves as an entry-point to the utopian art worlds of Weimar-era Germany, pacifist movements in 1930s Palestine and vibrant art and music scenes in early Cold War America. The book takes advantage of Wolpe's role as a mediator, bringing together perspectives from music scholarship, art history, comparative literature, postcolonial studies and recent theories of cosmopolitanism and diaspora. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-321) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011049749 |
| ISBN | 9781107003002 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1107003008 (hbk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
40021651552 |
