Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music
- Author: Vest, Lisa Cooper
Vest's merits as a musicologist and writer include a lucid prose style (scattered with occasional gems of poetic description), a dramatist's flair for rhetorical structuring, and an archivist's... — More…
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$79.25Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Backwardness (Zaleglosc): Defining Musical Modernity in Poland before and after World War II
- 2. Lack (Brak): The Shifting Status of the Artist-Intellectual Class during the Thaw
- 3. The Dissemination of Culture (Upowszechnienie kultury): Rebuilding Elite Institutions and Educating Elite Audiences
- 4. Lag (Opoznienie): Genius Construction and Looking Back to Move Forward
- 5. Modernity (Nowoczesnosc): Boguslaw Schaffer and the Cult of the New
- 6. Awangarda: The Polish Avant-Garde as Tradition
- 7. Backward and Forward: The Polish Avant-Garde as Progress
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index