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accessible music
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bruno maderna
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cold war
cold war tensions
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groundbreaking study
hungary
international politics
karlheinz stockhausen
music appreciation
music history
negative reactions
performing arts
political action
political anxieties
politics and music
radio propaganda
socialism
socialist state
Product details
- ISBN 9780520249653
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"Music Divided" explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary's most renowned twentieth-century composer, Bela Bartok. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bartok's music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist state. Her fascinating investigation of Bartok's reception outside of Hungary demonstrates that Western composers, too, formulated their ideas about musical style under the influence of ever-escalating cold war tensions. "Music Divided" surveys Bartok's role in provoking negative reactions to 'accessible' music from Pierre Boulez, Hermann Scherchen, and Theodor Adorno.
It considers Bartok's influence on the youthful compositions and thinking of Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and it outlines Bartok's legacy in the music of the Hungarian composers Andras Mihaly, Ferenc Szabo, and Endre Szervanszky. These details reveal the impact of local and international politics on the selection of music for concert and radio programs, on composers' choices about musical style, on government radio propaganda about music, on the development of socialist realism, and on the use of modernism as an instrument of political action.
Danielle Fosler-Lussier is Assistant Professor of Music at The Ohio State University.
