Making new music in Cold War Poland : the Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968

Music festivals Music Criticism, interpretation, etc
University of California Press
2017
EISBN 9780520966031
Introduction.
The sounds of revolution?.
Building an empty frame.
A raucous education.
From Warsaw to the world.
Mobilizing performers, scores, and avant-gardes.
The limits to exchange.
Epilogue.
'Making New Music in Cold War Poland' presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festival's worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists).
The sounds of revolution?.
Building an empty frame.
A raucous education.
From Warsaw to the world.
Mobilizing performers, scores, and avant-gardes.
The limits to exchange.
Epilogue.
'Making New Music in Cold War Poland' presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festival's institutional organization, negotiations among its various actors, and its reception in Poland, while also considering the festival's worldwide ramifications, particularly the ways that it contributed to the cross-border movement of ideas, objects, and people (including composers, performers, official festival guests, and tourists).
