Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989 / edited by Ruta Staneviciute and Malgorzata Janicka-Slysz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanevičiūtė, Rūta, editor.

Janicka-Słysz, Małgorzata, editor.

Series:

Studies in the history, methods, and boundaries of economics.

Studies in the History and Sociology of Music Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and music--Baltic States.

Communism and music.

Music--Social aspects--Baltic States--History--20th century.

Music.

Music--Political aspects--Baltic States--History--20th century.

Baltic States--History--1991-.

Baltic States.

Baltic States--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, [2022]

Summary:

Thisvolume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures inthe Eastern Baltics--Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia--at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part One CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS AND MUSICIANS’ NETWORKING

CHAPTER 1 From Ignorance to Familiarity: Lithuanian and Polish Musical Networking During the Cold War

CHAPTER 2 On Forms of Memory and Freedom in Polish and Lithuanian Music before and after 1989

CHAPTER 3 The Musical Meetings in Baranów and Sandomierz as Oases of Freedom

CHAPTER 4 Rebellion and Identity: A Generational Breakthrough in Polish Music in the 1970s

Part Two THE MUSICAL EXPRESSION OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LIBERATION

CHAPTER 5 The Idea of Freedom in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Works: From Experience to Expression

CHAPTER 6 Nodes and Turning Points in the Life and Art of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki as a Resonance of Polish Politics and History in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

CHAPTER 7 The Dimensions of Freedom in Wojciech Marczewski’s Movie Escape from the “Liberty” Cinema and Witold Leszczyński’s Siekierezada (Axiliad): Music Functions in Films

CHAPTER 8 Lithuanian Music in Transition: Independent Festivals of the 1980s and 1990s

Part Three MUSIC AND POLITICS BEFORE AND AFTER THE FALL

CHAPTER 9 Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s

CHAPTER 10 The Ganelin Trio, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and US-Soviet Cultural Exchanges in the 1980s

CHAPTER 11 On the Other Side of Freedom: The Band Miłość and the Polish Yass Scene

CHAPTER 12 Critics’ Choice: New Russian Music Criticism and Leonid Desyatnikov

Editors and Contributors

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Stanevičiūtė, Rūta Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989

ISBN:

9781644698952

1644698951

9781644698969

164469896X

OCLC:

1346360790