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Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works and composers from new woman-centric perspectives. It shows how the unique environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, intersects with gender to reveal hitherto unexplored networks that challenge the methodological nationalism of music studies as well as the discipline’s continued emphasis on singular canonical figures. The main areas of enquiry address aspects of performance and identity both within the Czech lands and abroad; women’s impact on social life with a view to different private, semiprivate, and public contexts and networks; and compositional aesthetics in musical works by and about women, analysed through the lens of piano works, song, choir music, and opera, always with the reception of these works in mind.
French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955
French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music’s role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Soviet, French, and Austrian cultural politics and discourse-building, presented in two parts - institutions of musical diplomacy: Soviet and French cultural diplomats in comparison; sounds of music coming to Austria: Soviet and French musicians on tour. Using a communication- and media-oriented approach, this study casts new light, firstly, on the interpretative power of 'receiving' publics and, secondly, on the role of cultural transmitters at different levels. This is a valuable study for those specialising in Russian and East European music and music and politics. It will also appeal to cultural historians and all those interested in the intersections between music, international relations, and Cold War history.
Yearbook of Transnational History
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as soccer, travel, music, and social policy. These articles highlight the movement of ideas, people, policies, and practices across various cultures and societies and explore the relations and connections, and spaces created by these movements. These articles make clear that historical phenomena from travel to music cannot be contained and explained within just one national setting. The volume offers, further, a number of theoretical and methodological articles that provide insights into the concept of transnational history and the approach of intercultural transfer studies. Last but not least, the volume also includes a number of review articles. These review articles provide an examination of books central to teaching transnational history as well as a historiographical exploration of the impact of transnational history on the field of sports history.
Polish Estrada Music
Polish estrada music dominated Polish popular music throughout the state socialist period but gained little attention from popular music scholars because it was regarded as being of low quality and politically conformist. Ewa Mazierska carefully examines these assumptions, considering those institutions which catered for the needs of estrada artists and their fans, the presence of estrada in different media and the careers and styles of the leading stars, such as Mieczysław Fogg, Irena Santor, Violetta Villas, Anna German, Jerzy Połomski, Maryla Rodowicz, Zdzisława Sośnicka, Zbigniew Wodecki and Krzysztof Krawczyk. Mazierska also discusses the memory and legacy of estrada music in the post-communist period. The book draws on Poland’s cultural and political history and the history of Polish popular music and media, including television and radio. Mazierska engages with concepts such as genre, stardom and authenticity in order to capture the essence of Polish estrada music and to provide a comparison with popular music produced in other countries.
Visions of Humanity
This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.
Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives
This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of their lives and works that resist or challenge the national framework. The volume showcases different ways of treating transnationality in life writing by and about artists, investigating how the transnational can offer intriguing new insights on artists who straddle different nations and cultures. It further explores ways of adopting transnational perspectives in artists’ biographies in order to deal with experiences of cultural otherness or international influences, and analyses cross-cultural representations of artists in biography and biofiction. Gathering together insights from biographers and scholars with expertise in literature, music and the visual arts, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives opens up rich avenues for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.
ANKLAENGE 2022/2023
Rundfunkgeschichte gehört seit Längerem zu den zeitgeschichtlichen Forschungsfeldern, hat sich als musikhistorisches Thema aber erst in jüngerer Zeit etabliert. Dieser Band der Anklaenge ist dem zuvor kaum behandelten Thema sowjetischer Präsenz in Gestalt der Radiosendereihe Die Russische Stunde gewidmet. Die von der RAVAG auf Radio Wien seit 1945 ausgestrahlte Sendereihe behandelte Themen aus Musik, Literatur und Wissenschaft, zunächst insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit der Sowjetunion, mit dem ausdrücklichen Ziel, das vom NS-Regime propagandistisch verzerrte Bild des Landes zu korrigieren. In zunehmendem Maße entwickelte sich die Sendung zum Agitationsinstrument der KPÖ. Nach Abschluss des Staatsvertrages 1955 wurde die Sendung eingestellt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren die Rolle des inländischen Rundfunks im von der sowjetischen Besatzungsmacht dominierten Teil Österreichs. Die Publikation ist zudem ein Ausweis der am Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Interpretationsforschung traditionell betriebenen musikalischen Zeitgeschichte. Sie kann auch als wesentliche Ergänzung der in anderen Disziplinen angesiedelten historischen Forschung verstanden werden.
Hearing is Believing
Über Jahrzehnte war das Radio das aktuellste und zudem das einzige Live-Nachrichten-Medium. (Staatliche) Grenzen kannte der Rundfunk nicht und die politischen Machthaber wussten dies bestmöglich zu nutzen. Der Band gibt Einblick in interdisziplinäre Forschungsarbeiten zur Radiogeschichte. Die Beiträge erörtern die Rolle des Hörfunks bei der Konstruktion neuer und alter nationaler, sozialer, kultureller und religiöser Identitäten. Der Einfluss einzelner Radiomacher*innen auf die Gestaltung der Programme wird thematisiert, wie auch die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Dynamiken, die manche Radiosendungen auslösten. Schließlich werden auch Parallelen der Medienlogik und Mediennutzun...
Österreich im Kalten Krieg
Die Beiträge des Bandes liefern wichtige Ergänzungen zum relativ gut erforschten Besatzungsjahrzehnt (1945–55), greifen neue Themen auf und sind um eine Einbettung der Untersuchungen zu Österreich in internationale Forschungsdebatten bemüht. Neben Fragen der internationalen Perzeption der Politik Österreichs greift der Band insbesondere rezente Fragestellungen auf, etwa die vieldimensionale atomare Herausforderung, kulturelle transnationale Interaktionen und staatliche Repräsentationen in diesem Feld. Die ausgewogenen und fundierten Analysen beleuchten viele bisher nur wenig bekannte Aspekte, relativieren bisher tradierte Mythen und zeigen auf, wie wünschenswert neue Forschungen zu Österreich im Kalten Krieg sind.
