Rūta Stanevičiūtė: Figures of Modernity. International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement in Lithuania, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2024, 312 S., 17 x 24 cm, English, Hardcover
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Figures of Modernity
International Society for Contemporary Music and the Modern Music Movement in Lithuania
The subject of this book is the activity of the Lithuanian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, its pre-history (1936–1939) and post-war reception, as well as the history of the Vilnius Chapter of the ISCM Polish Section which is seen as integral part of the modernisation of Lithuanian and international musical culture. With the aim of including the modern music movements in Kaunas and Vilnius in the international context, the book presents a critical review of ISCM strategies and a history of festivals in the interwar and early Cold War periods.
In the said context not only the artistic, but also the politic al contexts of the Society's activities are important. The Lithuanian Section of the ISCM is attributed to typical organisations of small countries stimulated by an international movement of modern music. However, in an environment of cultural transfer, not only the migration of ideas from the centre to the periphery is important, but also the response from the periphery to the centre. The author addresses the issues which are only marginally represented in many histories of the 20th-century musical modernisation.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
I International Society for Contemporary Music:
Festivals and Wars for New Music
The New Music Movement and the International Society
for Contemporary Music
International versus National in the ISCM’s
Structure and Activity Guidelines
Programming the ISCM Festivals: Locomotive against Metaphysics
II Lithuanian Composers
in European Movements of Contemporary Music
Leningrad Association for Contemporary Music and Jurgis Karnavičius
Vytautas Bacevičius: Paris Lessons
Franz Schreker, Vladas Jakubėnas, and the New Music Scene in Berlin
From Klaipėda to Prague: Jeronimas Kačinskas and Alois Hába School
Hába’s Doctrine of Liberated Music: Between Ideology and Technology
Jeronimas Kačinskas and His Early Microtonal Experiments
III Towards Progressive Music
To Kaunas, to Kaunas
Muzikos barai, New Music, and Chords of Nationality
Jeronimas Kačinskas and the Development of the Hába School
The Society of Progressive Musicians
Muzika ir teatras and Other Utopias of Vytautas Bacevičius
IV Tracing the Footsteps of the ISCM Lithuanian Section
Composers’ Cooperation and Ideological Contrapositions in the 1930s
The ISCM Lithuanian Section in Paris (1937) and London (1938)
V On the Eve of the War
The ISCM Polish Section before the Second World War
Tadeusz Szeligowski and the Modern Music Scene in Vilnius
Warsaw–Krakow, 1939
VI Oblivion and Return. Music and Politics during the Cold War
Political tensions. The ISCM in the Early Post-war Years
From Bacevičius’s Musical Movement to the Return Festival (1989)
Post Scriptum
List of Sources
List of Illustrations
Index
