Retuning culture : musical changes in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Mark Slobin.

Other author Slobin, Mark, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Descriptionvi, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--Europe, Central. --20th century. --History and criticism.
Music--Europe, Eastern. --20th century. --History and criticism.
Music--Social aspects.
Music and state--Europe, Central.
Music and state--Europe, Eastern.

Contents Dmitri Pokrovsky and the Russian folk music revival movement / Theodore Levin -- Kundera's musical Joke and "Folk" music in Czechoslovakia, 1948-? / Michael Beckerman -- The aesthetic of the Hungarian revival movement / Judit Frigyesi -- Lakodalmas rock and the rejection of popular culture in post-socialist Hungary / Barbara Rose Lange -- Continuity and change in eastern and central European traditional music / Anna Czekanowska -- The southern wind of change: style and the politics of identity in prewar Yugoslavia / Ljerka Vidíc Rasmussen -- The Ilahiya as a symbol of Bosnian Muslim national identity / Mirjana Lauševíc -- Nationalism on stage: music and change in Soviet Ukraine / Catherine Wanner -- The Romanian revolution of December 1989 and its reflection in musical folklore / Steluţa Popa -- The dialectic of economics and aesthetics in Bulgarian music / Timothy Rice -- Wedding musicians, political transition, and national consciousness in Bulgaria / Donna A. Buchanan -- Music and marginality: Roma (Gypsies) of Bulgaria and Macedonia / Carol Silverman -- Change as confirmation of continuity as experienced by Russian Molokans / Margarita Mazo.
Abstract 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. This book 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. This book 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
LCCN 96027983
ISBN0822318555 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822318474 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML240.5 .R48 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold