Interwar symphonies and the imagination : politics, identity, and the sound of 1933
The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony c...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
2023
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Music in context
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| Schlagworte: | Symphony Music Nineteen thirty-three, A.D |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism. |
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| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Jan 2023) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9781009172776 1009172778 9781009187572 1009187570 9781009172783 1009172786 9781009172790 1009172794 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009172776 |