Overview
In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists generated social commentary and tried new ways of working together as the political and economic atmosphere shifted during this time. Drawn from a variety of sources, the case studies illustrate how young musicians redefined a Central European history of elevating the arts by fusing poetry, local folk music, and other vernacular music with jazz, Asian music, art music, and electronic dance music. Their projects rejected exclusion based on ethnic background or gender prevalent in Central Europe's present far-right political movements, and instead embraced diverse modes of expression. Through this, the musicians asserted woman power, broadened masculinities, and declared affinity with regional minorities such as the Romani people.
Full Product Details
Author: Barbara Rose Lange (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Houston)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780190245368
ISBN 10: 0190245360
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 30 August 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
offers a fine series of manageably sized case studies that explore complex issues and intricate developments in telling detail, and without recourse to jargon. Students of modern Central Europe and of relationships between music, politics, and gender will enjoy reading it very much. -- Christopher Goertzen, Journal of Folklore Research
offers a fine series of manageably sized case studies that explore complex issues and intricate developments in telling detail, and without recourse to jargon. Students of modern Central Europe and of relationships between music, politics, and gender will enjoy reading it very much. * Christopher Goertzen, Journal of Folklore Research *
I would certainly recommend this title to any library supporting ethnomusicology or popular music at any level. Additionally, this work would also appeal to those nterested in gender studies, history, and/or politics. The numerous case studies bring theory to life and offer much to consider in an environment that underwent significant political, social, and economic change. Lange provides unique insights on central Europe's changing musical landscape, as well as how the Internet and changes in the music business impact musicians. -- Joe C. Clark, Kent State University, Fontes Artis Musicae offers a fine series of manageably sized case studies that explore complex issues and intricate developments in telling detail, and without recourse to jargon. Students of modern Central Europe and of relationships between music, politics, and gender will enjoy reading it very much. -- Christopher Goertzen, Journal of Folklore Research
"""I would certainly recommend this title to any library supporting ethnomusicology or popular music at any level. Additionally, this work would also appeal to those nterested in gender studies, history, and/or politics. The numerous case studies bring theory to life and offer much to consider in an environment that underwent significant political, social, and economic change. Lange provides unique insights on central Europe's changing musical landscape, as well as how the Internet and changes in the music business impact musicians."" -- Joe C. Clark, Kent State University, Fontes Artis Musicae ""offers a fine series of manageably sized case studies that explore complex issues and intricate developments in telling detail, and without recourse to jargon. Students of modern Central Europe and of relationships between music, politics, and gender will enjoy reading it very much."" -- Christopher Goertzen, Journal of Folklore Research"
Author Information
Barbara Rose Lange is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. She writes about folk and popular music in Central Europe, especially the art of the Romani (Gypsy) people. She is author of Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church (Oxford, 2003).
