Figures of Modernity (eBook)

International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement in Lithuania

Rūta Stanevičiūtė (Autor)

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2024
312 Seiten
Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
978-3-99094-110-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The subject of this book is the activity of the Lithuanian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, its pre-history (1936–1939) and post-war reception, as well as the history of the Vilnius Chapter of the ISCM Polish Section which is seen as integral part of the modernisation of Lithuanian and international musical culture. With the aim of including the modern music movements in Kaunas and Vilnius in the international context, the book presents a critical review of ISCM strategies and a history of festivals in the interwar and early Cold War periods.
In the said context not only the artistic, but also the politic al contexts of the Society's activities are important. The Lithuanian Section of the ISCM is attributed to typical organisations of small countries stimulated by an international movement of modern music. However, in an environment of cultural transfer, not only the migration of ideas from the centre to the periphery is important, but also the response from the periphery to the centre. The author addresses the issues which are only marginally represented in many histories of the 20th-century musical modernisation.

Autor

Rūta Stanevičiūtė is a full professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is a member of the IMS study groups Music and Cultural Studies, and the co-author of the monographs "Nylon Curtain. Cold War, International Exchange and Lithuanian Music" (2018), "Microtonal Music in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical Outlines and Current Practices" (2019) and "Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989" (2022).

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction


I International Society for Contemporary Music:
Festivals and Wars for New Music

The New Music Movement and the International Society
for Contemporary Music
International versus National in the ISCM's
Structure and Activity Guidelines
Programming the ISCM Festivals: Locomotive against Metaphysics
II Lithuanian Composers
in European Movements of Contemporary Music

Leningrad Association for Contemporary Music and Jurgis Karnavičius
Vytautas Bacevičius: Paris Lessons
Franz Schreker, Vladas Jakubėnas, and the New Music Scene in Berlin
From Klaipėda to Prague: Jeronimas Kačinskas and Alois Hába School
Hába's Doctrine of Liberated Music: Between Ideology and Technology
Jeronimas Kačinskas and His Early Microtonal Experiments
III Towards Progressive Music

To Kaunas, to Kaunas
Muzikos barai, New Music, and Chords of Nationality
Jeronimas Kačinskas and the Development of the Hába School
The Society of Progressive Musicians
Muzika ir teatras and Other Utopias of Vytautas Bacevičius
IV Tracing the Footsteps of the ISCM Lithuanian Section

Composers' Cooperation and Ideological Contrapositions in the 1930s
The ISCM Lithuanian Section in Paris (1937) and London (1938)
V On the Eve of the War

The ISCM Polish Section before the Second World War
Tadeusz Szeligowski and the Modern Music Scene in Vilnius
Warsaw–Krakow, 1939
VI Oblivion and Return. Music and Politics during the Cold War

Political tensions. The ISCM in the Early Post-war Years
From Bacevičius's Musical Movement to the Return Festival (1989)

Post Scriptum
List of Sources
List of Illustrations
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2024
• Verlagsort: Wien
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Figures of Modernity • International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement • Lithuania
• ISBN-10: 3-99094-110-0 / 3990941100
• ISBN-13: 978-3-99094-110-2 / 9783990941102