Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music Volume 28

by Lisa Cooper Vest

In Awangarda, Lisa Cooper Vest explores how the Polish postwar musical avant-garde framed itself in contrast to its Western European counterparts. Rather than a rejection of the past, the Polish avant-garde movement emerged as a manifestation of national cultural traditions stretching back into the interwar years and even earlier into the nineteenth century. Polish composers, scholars, and political leaders wielded the promise of national progress...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520344243
• ISBN13: 9780520344242
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"