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Constructing Polish musical identities outside Poland since 1880 : sounding 'Polish' / edited by Stephen Downes and Daniel Elphick
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Poland--20th century.
- Music.
- Music--Poland--21st century.
- Music and identity politics--Poland.
- Music and identity politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, music
- Other Title:
- Sounding Polish
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2026
- Contents:
- Introduction: Sounding 'Polish' / Stephen Downes
- I. Literary and linguistic echoes of musical 'Polishness.' 'Romantic, sublime, heroic, immortal' : American and English poets on Paderewski / Maja Trochimczyk ; The 'smell of hyacinths' : Chopin and Dionysian sensibility in T. S. Eliot's Portrait of a lady and The waste land / Aakanksha J. Virkar ; Projections of polka in American literature : Keith Maillard's The clarinet polka (2002) / Cindy Bylander ; Sounding Polish? Language, musicality, and sonoristic value in Benjamin Britten and David Bowie / James Savage-Hanford
- II. Moving and hearing 'Polish' images. Sounding the Polish subject in Stanisław Lem's Solaris : one novel, two cinematic adaptations / Michael L. Klein ; Polishness, train psychologies, and symbolic geography in Bruno Monsaingeon's 2009 film portrait of Piotr Anderszewski / Stephen Downes ; From Chopin (and Paderewski) to disco polo (and back) : musical constructions of expatriate Polishness in European cinema / Kris Van Heuckelom ; Listen carefully : audiovisual climates, characterisation, and The wire as Polish American people's history / Nicholas Reyland ; Polish sounds at the cinema : affect, empathy, and the contemporary Hollywood horror score / Lisa Cooper Vest
- III. Music, politics and 'Polishness.' The cynical promotion (and subsequent degrading) of Polish music during the Third Reich / Erik Levi ; Sergei Slonimsky and the Russian idea of Poland / Daniel Elphick ; Chopin in China : music, politics, and images of Chopin in the People's Republic of China / Wai-Ling Cheong
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, June 9, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Downes, Stephen Constructing Polish Musical Identities Outside Poland Since 1880
- ISBN:
- 9781837654383
- 1837654387
- Publisher Number:
- 40033285426
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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