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Author Vest, Lisa Cooper, author.

Title Awangarda : tradition and modernity in postwar Polish music / Lisa Cooper Vest.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations.
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Series California studies in 20th-century music ; 28
California studies in 20th-century music ; 28.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Backwardness (Zaległość) : Defining Musical Modernity in Poland before and after WWII -- Lack (Brak) : The Shifting Status of the Artist-Intellectual Class during the Thaw -- The Dissemination of Culture (Upowszechnienie Kultury) : Rebuilding Elite Institutions and Educating Elite Audiences -- Lag (Opóźnienie) : Genius Construction and Looking Back to Move Forward -- Modernity (Nowoczesność) : Bogusław Schäffer and The Cult of the New -- Awangarda : The Polish Avant-garde as Tradition -- Backward and Forward : The Polish Avant-garde as Progress.
Summary "In Awangarda, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde stood in stark contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than representing a rejection of the past, the Polish avant-garde movement emerged as a manifestation of national cultural traditions stretching back into the interwar years and even earlier, into the nineteenth century. Polish composers, scholars, and political leaders wielded the promise of national progress to broker consensus across generational and ideological divides. Together, they established an avant-garde musical tradition that pushed against the limitations of strict chronological time and instrumentalized discourses of backwardness and forwardness to articulate a Polish road to modernity. This is a history that resists Cold War periodization, opening up new ways of thinking about nations and nationalism in the second half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Music -- Poland -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Poland.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Avant-garde (Music) -- Poland -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Music)
History.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Vest, Lisa Cooper. Awangarda Oakland : University of California Press, 2020. 9780520344242 (DLC) 2020016912
ISBN 0520975421 electronic book
9780520975422 (electronic book)
9780520344242 hardcover