Musical modernism in global perspective : entangled histories on a shared planet / Björn Heile.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Heile, Björn, author.

Series:

• Music in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Modernism (Music)--History--20th century.
• Modernism (Music)--History--21st century.
• Music and globalization--History.
• Music and globalization--Case studies.
• Music--20th century--History and criticism.
• Music--21st century--History and criticism.
• International Society for Contemporary Music.
• Euba, Akin, 1935-2020.
• Pagh-Paan, Younghi, 1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism focuses on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions, overcoming the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts

Contents:

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Examples
• Supplementary Material
• Acknowledgements
• Note on the Text
• Introduction
• Elements of a Theory of Global Musical Modernism
• Western Imposition versus Bidirectional Cultural Flows
• Short Case Studies
• About This Book
• Part I Rethinking the Historiography of Musical Modernism
• 1 Echoes of The Rite in Latin-American Music and Literature
• From Scythianism to Indigenism
• Argentina: Alberto Ginastera
• Brazil: Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Mexico: Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas
• Cuba: Alejo Carpentier and Amadeo Roldán
• Conclusion
• 2 Exile, Migration and Mobility
• Music as/in Exile
• Migrants as Avant-garde
• Mobility as a Mass Phenomenon
• Teaching Genealogies
• The Dodecaphonic Diaspora
• 3 Institutionalised Internationalism: The International Society for Contemporary Music
• History and Function
• What Is Contemporary Music? The ISCM's Mission and Its Annual Festival
• Centre versus Periphery: Representation
• Membership
• Executive Committee
• WMD Host Cities
• Programming and Jury Selections
• Part II Two Case Studies
• 4 Akin Euba: African Art Music, Intercultural Composition and Creative Ethnomusicology
• From Lagos to London and Los Angeles: The Search for an African Art Music
• Bayreuth and Pittsburgh: Intercultural Music and African Pianism
• Twelve-Note Rows and Timelines: Scenes from Traditional Life and Chaka
• 5 Younghi Pagh-Paan: 'Composer Rooted in an Asian Thought-World'
• Between the Piano and the Gayageum: From Cheongju to Freiburg
• 'Not [to] write music that distances me from what ... I perceive inside me as the root of our culture.'
• Composing as a Korean Woman in Germany
• Madanguk and Mother Chords: The Compositional Work
• Towards the Light: Religious and Other Syncretism in Pagh-Paan's Recent Music
• Bibliography
• Index

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2024).

ISBN:

• 9781009491686
• 1009491687
• 9781009491730
• 1009491733
• 9781009491716
• 1009491717