Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee

Prof Philip V. Bohlman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4614-9 (ISBN)

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By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the “crisis of Europe” today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified?

A vast range of musical styles—from folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metal—coalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1989/90 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it.

33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese, Brazilian, and European music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Philip V. Bohlman is Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, USA, where he is also Artistic Director of The New Budapest Orpheum Society, a Grammy-nominated cabaret. He is author and editor of many books including World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed., 2020), Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe (2010), and Wie sängen wir Seinen Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde! Jüdische Musik des Aschkenas zwischen Tradition und Moderne (2019). He is Associate Editor for ethnomusicology of “Grove Music Online,” and co-editor of Acta Musicologica, the journal of the International Musicological Society.

Acknowledgments

Sources and Translations

Preface

Introduction – Sounding the Wounded Dialectic

1. Russian Gambit

2. Forest near Moscow

3. The Duel

4. Centaurs

5. The Foundling

Epilogue: The End of Epic as Its Beginning

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3 Europe
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Gewicht	180 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-4614-8 / 1501346148
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4614-9 / 9781501346149
Zustand	Neuware