Twentieth-Century Music and Politics Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds [Hardcover]

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; ?migr? communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.Contents: Foreword, Robin Milner-Gulland; Preface; Introduction, Pauline Fairclough; A world of Marxist orthodoxy? Alan Bushs Wat Tyler in Great Britain and the German Democratic Republic, Joanna Bullivant; Stravinskys Petrushka: modernizing the past, Russianizing the future, or, how Stravinsky learned to be an exile, Jonathan Cross; D?tente to Cold War: Anglo-Soviet musical exchanges in the late Stalin period, Pauline Fairclough; Front theatre, musical films and the war in Nazi cinema, Guido Heldt; Those damn foreigners: xenophobia and British musical life during the first half of the 20th century, Erik Levi; An angry ape: some preliminary thoughts about Orango, Gerard McBurney; A bridge between two worlds: the founding years of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Bogumila Mika; Winning hearts and minds? Soviet music in the Cold War struggle against the West, Simo Mikkonen; Preserving the fa??ade of normal times: musical life in Belgrade under the German occupation (1941-44), Melita Milin; Musical commemorations in post-Civil War Spain: Joaquin Rodrigos Concierto Heroico, Eva Moreda Rodriguez; Tlš