Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music
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206 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

20 line illus.

Series: Music in Society and Culture

Series Vol. Number: 7

Imprint: Boydell Press

Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music

by Florian Scheding

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The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history.

The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history. Musical Journeys uses vignettes of migratory moments in the works of Hanns Eisler in Paris, Mátyás Seiber in London, and István Anhalt in Montreal to investigate concepts of identity construction and musical aesthetics in the light of migratory experiences.

Moving between the Austro-Hungarian Empire, proto-fascist Hungary, fascist Germany, war-time Britain, post-war Canada, and socialist East Germany, the book explores aspects of musical migrant culture including creative responses to nationalist ideas and politics, the role of cultural institutions in promoting (or censoring) the works of immigrant composers, and the complex interaction between Jewish identity and memory. It contends that an approach to music through the lens of migration can challenge and enrich socio-cultural understandings of music as well as conceptions of music historiography.

Drawing on exile, diaspora, migration and mobilities studies, critical theory, and post-colonial and cultural studies, Musical Journeys weaves detailed biographical and contextual historical knowledge and analytical insights into music into an intricate fabric that does justice to the complexity of the musical migratory experience.

FLORIAN SCHEDING is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol.
Introduction: Mobility between Margin and Centre
Angels in Paris
Facing the Nation
Airwaves in London
Singing Exile of Progress and Nostalgia
Jewish Memories
"Marrying theoretical insight with thick description, Scheding's work moves the study of World War II-era,
European-Jewish composers in exile into a maturer set of relations with migration and diaspora studies more generally-without ever losing sight of the human stakes." REVUE DE MUSICOLOGIE

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Title Details

206 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

20 line illus.

Series: Music in Society and Culture

Series Vol. Number: 7

Imprint: Boydell Press