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Book SynopsisThe book presents the history of the only strictly scientific Polish musicological periodical Kwartalnik Muzyczny. It shows how the editorial board of the periodi-cal met with true approval and harsh criticism. The subject allows the author to present the beginnings of Polish musicology and its evolution through three epochs: the late partitioning period, the interwar period of Poland’s independ-ence, and the early years after the Second World War
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I Socio-institutional contexts of the establishment of Kwartalnik
Muzyczny
1. Panorama of Polish musicological journalism until
1910 – Roman Chojnacki’s Młoda Muzyka and Przegląd
Muzyczny – WTM and Henryk Opieński’s Kwartalnik
Muzyczny (1911–14) – collaboration with Adolf Chybiński –
clarification of the concept of a musicological quarterly –
university series
2. Societies, associations, institutes of the interwar
period: ‘Club of professional music press’ – Polish Society
for Contemporary Music – Polish Musicological Society –
Frederic Chopin Institute – Association of Early Music
Lovers and Publishing Society of Polish Music as an
institutional background to Kwartalnik Muzyczny
3. Music magazines of the interwar period: Lwowskie
Wiadomości Muzyczne i Literackie, Poznań’s Przegląd
Muzyczny, Mateusz Gliński’s Muzyka – other environmental
and local musical magazines – controversies over the model
of an expert journal of the milieu
II Hopes of Polish musicology – Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the
years 1928–1933
1. The idea of publishing a musicological quarterly –
preparatory work – establishing Kwartalnik Muzyczny:
the periodical’s concept – programme assumptions:
the first editorial – reactions of the milieu
2. Musicological circles in Poland (Lviv, Cracow,
Poznań, Warsaw) as addresses of the Kwartalnik –
socio-scientific contexts: ideas about the functioning
of the musicological environment – main topics of
interest – other possibilities of publishing musicological
studies: academic publishing
3. Musicology among academic disciplines in the interwar
period – systematics, discussions
4. Authors and subjects: historical-musical work – ‘technical
history’ (Chybiński) versus ‘live history’ (Jachimecki);
contemporary music as a subject for research; music
theory and acoustics; philosophy, aesthetics, sociology;
psychology, pedagogy; ethnography and musical folklore;
themed editions
5. Muzyka Polska (1934–39) – Polski Rocznik
Muzykologiczny (1935, 1936)
III Difficult years – Kwartalnik Muzyczny in the years
1948–1950
1. New context of the functioning of the academic milieu and
their publications – ‘bourgeoisie musicology’
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2. Ideologisation of learning about music – conferences,
conventions, congresses – Marxist musicology – Państwowy
Instytut Sztuki – gradual radicalisation in academia
3. An attempt to continue the formula of the magazine – Adolf
Chybiński and his collaborators (Zofia Lissa, Tadeusz
Ochlewski, Józef M. Chomiński – scope of cooperation
and organisation of editorial work) – new organisation of
publishing work (PWM, PIS)
4. Authors and subjects as well as concepts, problems and work
methods – continuation of the pre-war work – around the
current issues of musical socialist realism – thematic
projects
Conclusion
Premises of the publishing crisis – change of generation –
new publishing initiatives in the field of musicological
periodicals: Muzyka, Studia Muzykologiczne, Rocznik
Chopinowski
Afterword
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Secondary literature
