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