Music in the Balkans / by Jim Samson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samson, Jim.

Series:

Balkan Studies Library 8.

Balkan studies library ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Balkan Peninsula--History and criticism.

Music.

History--Balkan Peninsula.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (752 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Introduction

Part One Balkan Geographies

Chapter One Exodus

Sarajevo: Little Jerusalem

Two Peninsulas: The Sephardic Diaspora

Singing the Community: Music of the Sephardim

Opening Out: Themes and Developments

Chapter Two Ecologies

Music and Place

Ringed by Mountains: The Oaş Country

On the Voice: The Dinaric Alps and other Mountains

Deep in Šumadija

Chapter Three Displacements

Investing in Place

Migrations: Serbs in a Habsburg World

Trading Places: Greece and Anatolia

Tallava Rules: Kosovars in Macedonia

Chapter Four Ecumenes

In the Minority

All Together in Vojvodina

Orchestrating Thrace

Chapter Five Centres

All in the Family: Mapping Montenegro

Finding the Centres: People and Traditions

East

West

Part Two Historical Layers

Chapter Six A Makam-Echos Culture

Grand Narratives

Byzantine Reflections

Ottoman Canons

Chapter Seven Eastern Recessions

Allahu Ekber

Coffee Break

Turning West

Chapter Eight Infrastructures

Littoral Balkans: Venice and the Adriatic

Mitteleuropa: The Reach of the Habsburgs

Reciprocities: Modernising the Peripheries

The Principalities and Beyond

Chapter Nine Nations

The First Steps

Two Nations

The Berlin Balkans

Yugoslavism

Chapter Ten Inspirers

Building the Pyramids: Reflections on High Culture

Greeks ...

... and other Agents

Either/Or: Reflections on Modernism

Part Three Music in Transition

Chapter Eleven Mixing It

Discourses of Transition

Nuts and Bolts: Elements of Popular Music

On the Record: Surveying the Legacy

Chapter Twelve Join the Club

Following the Leader: Manolis Kalomiris

Drawing the Circle: The Greek National School

Another Way: The Failure of Greek Modernism

Chapter Thirteen Moderna

Garlands: Stevan Mokranjac

One People, Three Names: The First Yugoslavia

Late Arrivals: Croatian Modernisms

Parallel Tracks: Bulgarian Advances

Transit to Prague

Chapter Fourteen Serbo-Croat

Who Owns Slavenski?

From the Balkans ...

... to the Cosmos

Chapter Fifteen Placing Genius

A Tempting Comparison: Locating George Enescu

Closing In: Enescu's Journey

Wider Again: In the Modernist Canon

Part Four Eastern Europe

Chapter Sixteen The Curtain Descends

Left, Right ...

In Extremis: The Singular Case of Albania

Administered Music: Performing Communism

Composers on Message

Chapter Seventeen Diverging Paths

Traffic with Moscow

The Acolyte: Bulgarian Bridges

The Zealot: Albanian Austerities

The Maverick: Romanian Renewals

Chapter Eighteen Another Try

Politics versus Culture: The Second Yugoslavia

The Dark Decade: Mainly Serbia

In from the Cold: Mainly Croatia, a Little Slovenia, and Back to Serbia

Catching Up: Other Republics

Chapter Nineteen Birthright of the People

Orchestras: Classicising Traditional Music

Newly Composed Folk Music

Simulacra: Wedding Music and More

Chapter Twenty One Got Away

Popular Art Music: Theodorakis at Large

Art Music: Modernism is Official

Popular Music: Rebetika and Beyond

Part Five Global Balkans

Chapter Twenty-One All Change

Brave New World

Another Balkans: The Diasporic Imagination

Composers in Exile

Chapter Twenty-Two Conservation

Who Needs Classical Music?

Has Modern Music Really Grown Old?

Where Have All the Folksongs Gone?

Chapter Twenty-Three Balkan Beat

Heroes

Re-Inscribing Yugoslavia

Divas

Greek Mythology

Chapter Twenty-Four On Boundaries and Events

In Theory

Greece and its Neighbours

Music Partitioned ...

... and Not Quite Partitioned

Chapter Twenty-Five Endgame

Degenerations

Generations

Balkan Ghetto: The Story of Kosovo

Are We There Yet?

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Samson, Jim. Music in the Balkans.

ISBN:

90-04-25038-7

OCLC:

847134197

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004250383 DOI