Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

by Brigid Maureen Cohen and Brigid Cohen

Book Overview

The German-Jewish migr composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop and the kibbutz movement to bebop, Abstract Expressionism and Black Mountain College. This is the first full-length study of this often overlooked composer, launched from the standpoint of the mass migrations that have defined recent times. Drawing on over 2000 pages of unpublished documents, Cohen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316641163
• ISBN13: 9781316641163
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"