Retuning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe

by Mark Slobin

Book Overview

As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition-and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This pioneering set of studies traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central and Eastern Europe from the first harbingers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318474
• ISBN13: 9780822318477
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"