Figures of Modernity International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement in Lithuania Stanevičiūtė, Rūta

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanevičiūtė, Rūta., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figures of Modernity.

International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement.

Lithuania.

Local Subjects:

Figures of Modernity.

International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement.

Lithuania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wien Hollitzer Verlag 2024

Biography/History:

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).

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

9783990941102

3990941100

Publisher Number:

9783990941102