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Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe Paperback / softback - 2010 - 2nd Edition

by Philip V. Bohlman

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Paperback / softback. New. Surveys the intersection of music and nationalism by tracing its historical development and documenting its persistence today. Contrasting different types of music, this title reveals how music expresses core ideas of nationalism, for example, folk music in the nineteenth century and popular music in the twenty-first.
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  • Title Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe
  • Author Philip V. Bohlman
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2010-08-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Discography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780415960649
  • ISBN 9780415960649 / 0415960649
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 7.32 x 0.67 in (23.77 x 18.59 x 1.70 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Nationalism in music, Music - Europe - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010008020
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.94

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From the publisher

Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals the ways in which music and nationalism intersect in the shaping of the New Europe.

Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe begins with the emergence of the European nation-state in the Middle Ages and extends across long periods during which Europe's nations used music to compete for land and language, and to expand the colonial reach of Europe to the entire world. Bohlman contrasts the "national" and the "nationalist" in music, examining the ways in which their impact on society can be positive and negative -- beneficial for European cultural policy and dangerous in times when many European borders are more fragile than ever. The New Europe of the twenty-first century is more varied, more complex, and more politically volatile than ever, and its music resonates fully with these transformations.

About the author

Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music, and Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule fr Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany. Among the awards for his wide-ranging publications are the Edward Dent Medal of the Royal Music Association, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the Donald Tovey Memorial Prize of Oxford University, and the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology (for the first edition of Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe) from the British Academy, to which he was elected as a Corresponding Fellow in 2007.