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