Nationalism, Chauvinism and Racism as Reflected in European Musical Thought and in Compositions from the Interwar Period

ISBN-13: 9783631787274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Andrzej Tuchowski

Opis

This book concerns the ways in which nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period. The impact of these ideologies on the reflection on music has been discussed on the example of four countries of various social-political systems and ethnic backgroud: Germany, Italy, Poland and Great Britain.

Spis treści

Nationalism vs Universalism - Racist foundations of the Nazi thought on music and of the normative music aesthetics - Reactions to the biological racism of the 3rd Reich from musical and academic circles in Poland and the UK - The way from nationalism to racism in fascist Italy - Cryptonationalisms in post-war Europe

O autorze

Andrzej Tuchowski, a musicologist and composer, is a professor of music theory at the Zielona Góra University and Karol Lipinski Music Academy in Wroclaw. He specialises in 19th- and 20th-century music history and theory as well as in the socio-political aspects of music in the 20th century.