Description
Book SynopsisAs a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition. This book traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central and Eastern Europe from the first harbingers of change in the 1970s through the revolutionary period of 1989-90.
Trade Review“
Retuning Culture explores vital new ground in the way musical—as opposed to broad cultural—change has occurred recently in Eastern and Central Europe. It adds substantially to our knowledge of how musical behavior, performance, and traditions act and are acted upon in providing both continuity and adaptation to change.”—James Porter, University of California, Los Angeles
“An example of new thinking in area studies,
Retuning Culture is an important book, valuable for its originality and for its overall statement regarding the nature of culture in political change. Of all the professional discourses brought to bear on the study of Eastern Europe in the past, musicology has been the least developed. This book will change that.”—Michael Holquist, Yale University
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Mark Slobin 1
Dmitri Pokrovsky and the Russian Folk Music Revival Movement / Theodore Levin 14
Kundera's Musical
Joke and "Folk" Music in Czechoslovakia, 1948-? / Michael Beckerman 37
The Aesthetic of the Hungarian Revival Movement / Judit Frigyesi 54
Lakodalmas Rock and the Rejection of Popular Culture in Post-Socialist Hungary / Barbara Rose Lange 76
Continuity and Change in Eastern and Central European Traditional Music / Anna Czekanowska 92
The Southern Wind of Change: Style and the Politics of Identity in Prewar Yugoslavia / lLjerka Vidic Rasmussen 99
The
Ilahiya as a Symbol of Bosnian Muslim National Identity / Mirjana Lausevic 117
Nationalism on Stage: Music and Change in Soviet Ukraine / Catherine Wanner 136
The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and Its Reflection in Musical Folklore / Steluta Popa 156
The Dialectic of Economics and Aesthetics in Bulgarian Music / Timothy Rice 176
Wedding Musicians, Political Transition ,and National Consciousness in Bulgaria / Donna A. Buchanan 200
Music and Marginality:
Roma (Gypsies) of Bulgaria and Macedonia / Carol Silverman 231
Change as Confirmation of Continuity As Experienced by Russian Molokans / Margarita Mazo 254
Works Cited 277
Contributors 293
Index 295
