Nationalism, Chauvinism and Racism as Reflected in European Musical Thought and in Compositions from the Interwar Period
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Andrzej Tuchowski, a musicologist and composer, is a professor of music theory at the Zielona Góra University and Karol Lipiński Music Academy in Wrocław. He specialises in 19th- and 20th-century music history and theory as well as in the socio-political aspects of music in the 20th century.
This book concerns the ways in which many different types of nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period, and how the leading artistic personalities of that period reacted to these ideologies. The concept of "nationalism" is understood broadly in this book and covers the entire spectrum of its positive and negative aspects. The topics listed in the book’s title have been discussed on the example of selected four countries, significant with respect to population and territory and representing different social-political systems: Germany (mostly after 1933), Italy, Poland (after 1926) and Great Britain. This selection is also representative of the main ethnic groups in Europe: Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Latin-Romance and Slavic.
This book concerns the ways in which nationalism, chauvinism and racism penetrated into musical thought in the interwar period. The impact of these ideologies on the reflection on music has been discussed on the example of four countries of various social-political systems and ethnic backgroud: Germany, Italy, Poland and Great Britain.
Nationalism vs Universalism – Racist foundations of the Nazi thought on music and of the normative music aesthetics – Reactions to the biological racism of the 3rd Reich from musical and academic circles in Poland and the UK – The way from nationalism to racism in fascist Italy – Cryptonationalisms in post-war Europe
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Biographical note
Andrzej Tuchowski, a musicologist and composer, is a professor of music theory at the Zielona Góra University and Karol Lipiński Music Academy in Wrocław. He specialises in 19th- and 20th-century music history and theory as well as in the socio-political aspects of music in the 20th century.