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Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968
Lisa Jakelski
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Hardback. Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. The author examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 b/w, 3 music ex, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AVGC6; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 173 x 271 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festival's worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists). This book explores social interactions within institutional frameworks and how these ... Read more
Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festival's worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists). This book explores social interactions within institutional frameworks and how these ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520292543
SKU
V9780520292543
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About Lisa Jakelski
Lisa Jakelski is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Reviews for Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968
Lisa Jakelski's Making New Music in Cold War Poland is an important contribution to international and transnational history... Logically organized and lucidly written. H-Diplo