Confronting the National in the Musical Past

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of musical examples -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1 Confronting the national -- 1 Cosmopolitan musicology -- 2 Liszt's national compositions in the year of the Franco-Prussian war -- Appendix -- 3 The migrant and the nation: Hanns Eisler and German identity -- 4 The travelling musician as cosmopolitan: Western performers and composers in mid-nineteenth-century St Petersburg and Moscow -- 5 Communist nationalisms, internationalisms, and cosmopolitanisms: The case of the German Democratic Republic -- PART 2 Confronting national institutions -- 6 Listening together: Aurality and the everyday in Riga before the Shoah -- 7 Two men averting the gaze from the fatherland: Ilmari Krohn and Armas Launis as cosmopolitan musicologists in early twentieth-century Finland -- 8 National phonography in the musical past: Empire, archive, and overlapping musical migrations in Britain -- 9 Electroacoustic mythmaking: National grand narratives in electroacoustic music -- PART 3 Confronting national stereotypes -- 10 Learning music in the social jungle: Young performers' method books in the postwar USA and de-Germanized Finland -- 11 Libert?, Egalit?, and Lutherie: Fetishizing Stradivarius in the context of French nationalism -- 12 'Cantor of the enduring human heart': Wagner in the Parisian press, 1933 -- 13 Territory is the key: A look at the birth of 'national music' in Spain (1799-1803) -- Index

• | Author: Elaine Kelly, Markus Mantere, Derek B. Scott
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 214 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138287423
• | ISBN-13: 9781138287426