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California Studies in 20th-Century MusicReeks

Deze serie duikt in het rijke en diverse muzikale landschap van de 20e eeuw, met speciale aandacht voor Californië als cultureel centrum. Het onderzoekt genres variërend van klassiek en jazz tot rock en pop, en onthult hoe de Californische omgeving muzikale innovatie en trends bevorderde. Lezers ontdekken belangrijke artiesten, bewegingen en historische momenten die de klank van die tijd definieerden. Elk deel biedt een diepgaande analyse van specifieke aspecten van deze dynamische periode en de blijvende impact ervan op de mondiale muziekscene.

In Search of a Concrete Music
A proposito del Doctor Faustus
Middlebrow Modernism
The Doctor Faustus Dossier - Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and their Contemporaries, 1930-1951
New music, new allies
Nostalgia for the Future

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  • Nostalgia for the Future

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    Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono’s most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (1948–1989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono’s words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.

    Nostalgia for the Future

  • New music, new allies

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    New Music, New Allies documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Beginning with the reeducation programs implemented by American military officers during the postwar occupation of West Germany and continuing through the cultural policies of the Cold War era, this broad history chronicles German views on American music, American composers’ pursuit of professional opportunities abroad, and the unprecedented dissemination and support their music enjoyed through West German state-subsidized radio stations, new music festivals, and international exchange programs.Framing the biographies of prominent American composer-performers within the aesthetic and ideological contexts of the second half of the twentieth century, Amy C. Beal follows the international careers of John Cage, Henry Cowell, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Conlon Nancarrow, and many others to Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, Cologne, Bremen, Berlin, and Munich.

    New music, new allies

  • The Doctor Faustus Dossier - Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and their Contemporaries, 1930-1951

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    This complete edition of letters and documents between Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann brings together two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both of whom found refuge in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. Culminating in the famous dispute over Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, the correspondence, diary entries, and related articles provide a glimpse inside the private and public lives of these two great artists, the outstanding figures of the German-exile community in California. In the thicket of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make enemies of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by rich primary source materials and an introduction by Germanic scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact the artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.

    The Doctor Faustus Dossier - Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and their Contemporaries, 1930-1951

  • Middlebrow Modernism

    At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the “great divide” between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten’s works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.

    Middlebrow Modernism

  • In Search of a Concrete Music

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    Suitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers a translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.

    In Search of a Concrete Music

  • German modernism

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    In this pioneering study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, he questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler

    German modernism

  • Apropos Doktor Faustus

    Briefwechsel Arnold Schönberg - Thomas Mann 1930-1951

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    Mit dem Briefwechsel von Arnold Schönberg und Thomas Mann ist nicht nur ein Stück Exilgeschichte, sondern ein wesentliches Stück Literatur- und Musikgeschichte erstmals auf Deutsch nachzulesen. Die Briefe sind ein weiterer Baustein zum umfassenden Verständnis der Werke der beiden Ausnahmekünstler. Als der Literaturnobelpreisträger Thomas Mann 1941 zum ersten Mal nach Los Angeles kam, lebte er nur wenige Häuser entfernt vom Komponisten Arnold Schönberg. Trotz der räumlichen Nähe und eines gelegentlichen Kontaktes entwickelte sich keine enge Freundschaft zwischen den beiden. Der zunächst unregelmäßige, später intensivere Briefverkehr zeigt vielmehr inhaltliche und persönliche Bruchlinien auf, die tief in den Biografien der beiden Künstler verwurzelt scheinen. Vor allem die offensichtlichen Anlehnungen von Adrian Leverkühns – Protagonist in Manns Roman „Doktor Faustus“ – musiktheoretischen Überlegungen an Arnold Schönberg boten Anlass zu heftigen Auseinandersetzungen. Ergänzt wird der Briefverkehr durch Schönbergs Vier-Punkte-Programm für das Judentum und begleitende Essays des namhaften Musikhistorikers Bernhold Schmid, des Philosophen Andre Neher und des Schönberg-Schülers Richard Hoffmann.

    Apropos Doktor Faustus