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Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

By: Maria Kostakeva

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Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

By: Maria Kostakeva

“Irony, a major aesthetic attitude in 20th century music, ceases to be irony if seriously discussed. I play with the myth, inventing it myself and using it only as an object of interpretation.” This thought of the German-Bulgarian composer Bojidar Spassov sounds like a proclamation of the idea of postmodern irony that pervades all his work. Old and new times, cultural and national traditions, and archaic and modern sensibilities emerge like carnival masks through the ironic prism of his multifaceted music. The present book is the first monograph on this artist – a paradoxical multinational and multicultural phenomenon who developed in three geographical areas and three national cultures: Bulgarian, where he grew up; Russian, where his professional personality was formed; and Western European, where he found his own way among the countless aesthetic and compositional trends. This is also the first attempt to shed some light on a culture that is little known to the English reader – the contemporary music of Bulgaria.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036405621

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9781036405625

Performing Pain

Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe

By: Maria Cizmic

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Performing Pain

Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe

By: Maria Cizmic

Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. In Performing Pain, author Maria Cizmic focuses on the late 20th century in Eastern Europe as she uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a cultural preoccupation in this region with the meanings of historical suffering, particularly surrounding the Second World War and the Stalinist era. Journalists, historians, writers, artists, and filmmakers frequently negotiated themes related to pain and memory, truth and history, morality and spirituality during glasnost and the years leading up to it. Performing Pain considers how works by composers Alfred Schnittke, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo Part, and Henryk Gorecki musically address contemporary concerns regarding history and suffering through composition, performance, and reception.Taking theoretical cues from psychology, sociology, and literary and cultural studies, Cizmic offers a set of hermeneutic essays that demonstrate the ways in which people employ music in order to make sense of historical traumas and losses. Seemingly postmodern compositional choices--such as quotation, fragmentation, and stasis--create musical analogies to psychological and emotional responses to trauma and grief, and the physical realities of their embodied performance focus attention on the ethics of pain and representation. Furthermore, as film music, these works participate in contemporary debates regarding memory and trauma. A comprehensive and innovative study, Performing Pain will fascinate scholars interested in the music of Eastern Europe and in aesthetic articulations of suffering.

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OUP USA

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0199734607

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9780199734603

Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

By: Maria Kostakeva

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1036405621

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Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

Performing Pain

Performing Pain

Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

Bojidar Spassov's Musical Creation as a Reflection of the Eastern and Western European Traditions

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