Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989 / / ed. by Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Czachorowska-Zygor, Ewa,; Gruodytė, Vita,; Janicka-Słysz, Małgorzata,; Karnes, Kevin C.,; Kiwała, Kinga,; Malecka, Teresa,; Manulkina, Olga,; Micał, Dominika,; Mądro, Andrzej,; Schmelz, Peter J.,; Sowińska-Fruhtrunk, Iwona,; Stanevičiūtė, Rūta,
• HerausgeberIn: Janicka-Słysz, Małgorzata,; Stanevičiūtė, Rūta,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History and Sociology of Music
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS AND MUSICIANS’ NETWORKING -- CHAPTER 1 From Ignorance to Familiarity: Lithuanian and Polish Musical Networking During the Cold War -- CHAPTER 2 On Forms of Memory and Freedom in Polish and Lithuanian Music before and after 1989 -- CHAPTER 3 The Musical Meetings in Baranów and Sandomierz as Oases of Freedom -- CHAPTER 4 Rebellion and Identity: A Generational Breakthrough in Polish Music in the 1970s -- Part Two THE MUSICAL EXPRESSION OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LIBERATION -- CHAPTER 5 The Idea of Freedom in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Works: From Experience to Expression -- CHAPTER 6 Nodes and Turning Points in the Life and Art of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki as a Resonance of Polish Politics and History in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- CHAPTER 7 The Dimensions of Freedom in Wojciech Marczewski’s Movie Escape from the “Liberty” Cinema and Witold Leszczyński’s Siekierezada (Axiliad): Music Functions in Films -- CHAPTER 8 Lithuanian Music in Transition: Independent Festivals of the 1980s and 1990s -- Part Three MUSIC AND POLITICS BEFORE AND AFTER THE FALL -- CHAPTER 9 Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s -- CHAPTER 10 The Ganelin Trio, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and US-Soviet Cultural Exchanges in the 1980s -- CHAPTER 11 On the Other Side of Freedom: The Band Miłość and the Polish Yass Scene -- CHAPTER 12 Critics’ Choice: New Russian Music Criticism and Leonid Desyatnikov -- Editors and Contributors -- Index of Names