Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsIntroduction
Rūta Stanevičiūtė and Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz
Part One: Cultural Encounters and Musicians’ Networking
1. From Ignorance to Familiarity: Lithuanian and Polish Musical Networking During the Cold War
Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
2. On Forms of Memory and Freedom in Polish and Lithuanian Music before and after 1989
Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
3. The Musical Meetings in Baranów and Sandomierz as Oases of Freedom
Dominika Micał, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
4. Rebellion and Identity: A Generational Breakthrough in Polish Music in the 1970s
Kinga Kiwała, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
Part Two: The Musical Expression of Cultural and Political Liberation
5. The Idea of Freedom in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Works: From Experience to Expression
Iwona Sowińska-Fruhtrunk, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
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
Teresa Malecka, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
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
Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
8. Lithuanian Music in Transition: Independent Festivals of the 1980s and 1990s
Vita Gruodytė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Part Three: Music and Politics before and after the Fall
9. Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s
Kevin C. Karnes, Emory University
10. The Ganelin Trio, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and US-Soviet Cultural Exchanges in the 1980s
Peter J. Schmelz, Arizona State University
11. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Band Miłość and the Polish Yass Scene
Andrzej Mądro, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow
12. Critics’ Choice: New Russian Music Criticism and Leonid Desyatnikov
Olga Manulkina, Saint Petersburg State University
Editors and Contributors
Index of Names
