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Stefan Wolpe and the avant-garde diaspora

Brigid Maureen Cohen 2012 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9781316641163 (paper)
  • 9781107003002 (hardcover)
  • 9781139698559 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of illustrations and musical examples (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction: Toward a historiography of modernism in migration (page 1)
    • Modernism, migration, and Wolpe (page 1)
    • Retheorizing musical modernism (page 8)
    • Beyond national frameworks and studies of exile and assimilation (page 12)
    • Migrant cosmopolitanism (page 22)
    • On the interpretation of modernist works (page 31)
  • 1 Wolpe's Self-Revelatory Poetics and Critical Reflections, Circa 1951 (page 38)
    • "The real clarification and real-true solution of human particularities" (page 38)
    • "Held In" (page 40)
    • Form and broken form (page 47)
    • "The un-losable friendship of human recognition" (page 55)
    • Wolpe's self-revelation and self-narration (page 64)
  • 2 Weimar-Era Montage and Avant-Garde Community (page 76)
    • Part 1: At the Bauhaus (page 76)
    • "What would we be in a position to do without school?" (page 76)
    • Montage: the ethics of estrangement, formalization, and reclamation (page 88)
    • Part 2: After the Bauhaus (page 104)
    • Zeus und Elida (page 105)
    • Shock and experimental form (page 130)
  • 3 "Amalgamated" Musics and National Visions in 1930s Palestine (page 140)
    • "Amalgamated" idioms and Mandate-era politics (page 140)
    • Wolpe's political position in Palestine (page 145)
    • Wolpe's "full concern" and pedagogical presence (page 158)
    • "If it be my fate..." (page 169)
    • The "dream-panorama" of Jewish music (page 183)
    • "But only if it existed: the most spiritual community" (page 193)
  • 4 The Mid-Century Poetics and Politics of Experimental Community (page 202)
    • The Oboe Quartet: community life and memory (page 202)
    • Resisting the "holes of oblivion": Wolpe, Arendt, and human plurality (page 212)
    • Tranforming "things" into "beings": Wolpe, Blücher, and "organic modes" (page 222)
    • Wolpe's mid-century communities in profile (page 230)
    • Heterotopia (page 263)
  • Epilogue: The Witnessing Memory (page 267)
    • No direction home (page 267)
    • The self-narrator's belonging (page 275)
    • Haunted objects (page 284)
    • The "discontinuum" of testament (page 295)
    • Interpretive communities and publics (page 301)
  • Select Bibliography (page 304)
  • Index (page 322)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MOD 20.4 (Nov. 2013): 785-787 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536185
GSR 38.3 (Oct. 2015): 692-694 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/596097
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