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Jazz and Totalitarianism
Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an overview of the two central terms and their development since their contemporaneous appearance in cultural and historiographical discourses in the early twentieth century, comprising fifteen essays written by specialists on particular regimes situated in a wide variety of time periods and places. Interdisciplinary in nature, this compelling work will appeal to students from Music and Jazz Studies to Political Science, Sociology, and Cultural Theory.
Disputed Memory
The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th century in the region. Written by an international group of scholars from a diversity of disciplines, the chapters approach memory disputes in methodologically innovative ways, studying representations and negotiations of disputed pasts in different media, including monuments, museum exhibitions, individual and political discourse and electronic social media. Analyzing memory disputes in various local, national and transnational contexts, the chapters demonstrate the political power and social impact of painful and disputed memories. The book brings new insights into current memory disputes in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It contributes to the understanding of processes of memory transmission and negotiation across borders and cultures in Europe, emphasizing the interconnectedness of memory with emotions, mediation and politics.
Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989
This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics—Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia—at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and conceptualize transnational musical collaboration and the diffusion of information, people, and ideas focusing on musical activity which shaped the moral and artistic outlook of several generations. The volume sheds light on the transformative power of politically and socially engaged music and offers a deeper understanding of the artistic potential of societies and its impact on social and political change.
Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization
This book provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In more than 60 chapters, leading and emerging scholars present key concepts for the study of cultural memory. Bringing together voices
How to Deal with Refugees?
2015 was without any doubt the year of migrations. Over the subsequent two years, we have certainly seen the migration flows reduce, but it was never going to be possible to halt them altogether. From the outset of this phenomenon, numerous academics and researchers have dedicated themselves to the topic. They analyse the causes, the course of the migration flows, parallels and impacts, as well as possible scenarios of the migration movement. A wide-reaching debate has evolved on the topic of migration, to which the authors in this anthology were also keen to contribute conflict regulations attempts. In this publication, historians, political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, geographers, human geographers, economists, literary scientists, legal scholars, theologians and psychiatrists from a range of European and Non-European countries have each contributed from their individual standpoints.
The Stories Old Towns Tell
A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history “[A] fascinating chronicle.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe’s ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history. Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference.
Městečko na kraji dějin
Historik Bernard Wasserstein se před desítkami let rozhodl poodhalit neznámé dějiny městečka ležícího na dnešní Ukrajině nedaleko Lvova, ze kterého pochází jeho rodina. Krakowiec, obyčejné městečko na polsko-ukrajinském pomezí, kterým se přehnaly politické bouře i vojska mocností, má pohnutou a dramatickou historii. Velmocenské zájmy, o kterých se učí v dějepise, však nezachycují osudy obyčejných lidí, což autor napravil. Napínavá pouť stoletími politických a náboženských konfliktů, kdy se Haličí prohnala vojska kozáků, Turků, Švédů, Rusů a Poláků, končí až v současnosti. Krakowiec zažil nadvládu Poláků, Rusů, Habsburků i ...
Chơi Jazz ở Việt Nam
Jazz – một thể loại âm nhạc bắt nguồn từ cộng đồng người châu Phi ở Hoa Kỳ vào cuối thế kỷ 19 – đầu thế kỷ 20, đã lan ra khắp thế giới và hiện diện ở mọi nền văn hóa âm nhạc quốc gia. Nhạc jazz mang đậm tính nghệ sĩ, đầy nét đặc trưng và khiến những thính giả khi đã thích rồi sẽ như một kẻ si tình với nó. Ở Việt Nam, jazz cũng có rất nhiều câu chuyện riêng, kiến thức “nhập môn” riêng để khám phá, như người Việt chơi jazz ở Việt Nam là ai? Họ học chơi jazz ở đâu, bằng cách nào? Có thật là họ “chơi jazz” không?… N...
Polnische Komponisten bei den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik Darmstadt um 1960
1957 nahmen polnische Komponisten erstmals an den berühmten Darmstädter Ferienkursen teil, nachdem sie jahrelang von der musikalischen Entwicklung des Westens isoliert gewesen waren. Diese polnisch-westlichen Begegnungen und die musikalischen Anregungen im Werk polnischer Komponisten beleuchtet die vorliegende Studie. Angesichts des sich zuspitzenden Kalten Krieges war der Besuch der polnischen Künstler in Westdeutschland nicht ohne Brisanz. Während auf politischer Ebene kaum ein Dialog möglich war, ereignete sich im Bereich der zeitgenössischen Musik ein lebendiger Austausch zwischen Polen und der westlichen Avantgarde über den Eisernen Vorhang hinweg. Dafür mussten zahlreiche Hürden überwunden werden, die Begegnungen bedeuteten jedoch gleichzeitig eine immense Bereicherung für beide Seiten. In der Arbeit werden strukturelle Aspekte der polnisch-westlichen Begegnungen – Entwicklung der Beziehungen, Teilnehmer, Programmeinbindung, bürokratische Hürden – wie auch die Rezeption westlicher Kompositionstechniken durch polnische Komponisten untersucht.
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together interdisciplinary case studies conducted in Central and Eastern European cities, exploring how present-day inhabitants “remember” past instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the cultural heritage of groups that vanished in their wake. Together these contributions offer insights into more universal questions of collective memory and the formation of national identity.
