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Jazz in (Eastern) Europe: Freedom and ownership by Marcus Zagorski is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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What does freedom have to do with music? This is no arbitrary question, but, rather, touches upon one of the themes that lie at the heart of Jazz from Socialist Realism to Postmodernism. The theme of freedom appears in many of the chapters that constitute this book, and its appearance should not be surprising. Jazz situated historically between socialist realism and postmodernism in the Eastern Bloc is jazz situated during the Cold War: that is the broader global context against which most of these chapters play out. And few ideas could be more essential to the Cold War than freedom or its absence. Musicology, for much of its history, was scarcely interested in the relation between music and freedom. This is not true of music itself, of course: from Beethoven's Fidelio to The Who's I'm Free, to mention only two obvious examples from a restricted time period, music has engaged with the idea of freedom as one of the essential expressions of being human. But musicology? Not so much. For much of the history of musicology, its practitioners concerned themselves with establishing chronologies, studying scores and sketches, the production of critical editions, style analysis, and the comp
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- Author
- Marcus Zagorski
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences