Music divided : Bartók's legacy in cold war culture
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Music divided : Bartók's legacy in cold war culture
（California studies in 20th century music, 7）
University of California Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index
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Description
"Music Divided" explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary's most renowned twentieth-century composer, Bela Bartok. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bartok's music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist state. Her fascinating investigation of Bartok's reception outside of Hungary demonstrates that Western composers, too, formulated their ideas about musical style under the influence of ever-escalating cold war tensions. "Music Divided" surveys Bartok's role in provoking negative reactions to 'accessible' music from Pierre Boulez, Hermann Scherchen, and Theodor Adorno.
It considers Bartok's influence on the youthful compositions and thinking of Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and it outlines Bartok's legacy in the music of the Hungarian composers Andras Mihaly, Ferenc Szabo, and Endre Szervanszky. These details reveal the impact of local and international politics on the selection of music for concert and radio programs, on composers' choices about musical style, on government radio propaganda about music, on the development of socialist realism, and on the use of modernism as an instrument of political action.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Preface Note on Hungarian Pronunciation 1. Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and the Demise of Hungary's "Third Road" 2. A Compromised Composer: Bartok's Music and Western Europe's Fresh Start 3. "Bartok Is Ours": The Voice of America and Hungarian Control over Bartok's Legacy 4. Bartok and His Publics: Defining the "Modern Classic" 5. Beyond the Folk Song
- or, What Was Hungarian Socialist Realist Music? 6. The "Bartok Question" and the Politics of Dissent: The Case of Andras Mihaly Epilogue East: Bartok's Difficult Truths and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Epilogue West: Bartok's Legacy and George Rochberg's Postmodernity Appendix 1: Compositions by Bartok Broadcast on Hungarian Radio, 18 September to 1 October 1950 Appendix 2: Biographical Notes Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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