| Description |
xii, 193 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Spaces beyond : an introduction -- A beginning : the Riga Polytechnic disco, 1974-76 -- Tintinnabuli and the sacred -- Ritual moments : the RPI festivals, 1976-77 -- Tallinn 1978 -- Aftersounds : Bolderāja, Sergiyev Posad, and a train to Brest-Litovsk. |
| Summary |
"In Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes illuminates the unofficial and interconnected music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s through the work of Arvo Pärt, one of the most successful and widely known contemporary classical composers with a large international following. Karnes shows how Pärt's work of the 1970s took shape in dialogue with a community of alternative musicians and as part of a vital yet forgotten culture of collective experimentation Karnes calls the 1970s Soviet Underground. Using a combination of archival research and oral history, Karnes carefully situates modes of experimentation in the late socialist contexts out of which they emerged, and he also shows the degree to which experimental scenes in the East and West were in dialogue and shared several common goals. Karnes also unveils the deeply communal nature of experimental projects in music and the visual arts, from John Cage to Morton Feldman, and in dislodging the mythology of the solitary genius cultivated in the official biographies of Pärt and many others; as he writes, his work was impossible without community"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Binding |
Binding: Includes dust jacket. ICU |
| Subject |
Pärt, Arvo -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pärt, Arvo. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Underground music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
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Underground music. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Music -- Estonia -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Estonia. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music -- Soviet Union -- Religious aspects.
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Music -- Religious aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9780226801902 hardcover |
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022680190X hardcover |
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9780226815404 electronic book |
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