Fighting with Words: American Composers' Commentary on Their Work

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
American Composers ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion of literature concerning the changes taking place in American art music. In many cases, this literature is the work of the very people who are making those changes, the composers of new music. Much of their commentary is written in a manifesto style reminiscent of avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. The dominant topic concerns the changes composers feel are needed to revolutionize American music.

Burleigh’s Singing Career

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
Lecture Recital ◽  
African American Art ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This chapter focuses on Harry T. Burleigh's singing career. When Burleigh auditioned for admission to the Artist's Course at the National Conservatory of Music, his goal was to become a classical concert singer. Like soprano Sissieretta Jones, he wanted to sing arias and art songs in recital. Like other well-known black singers, Burleigh sang for audiences in African American venues throughout the East and Midwest, as well as for mixed audiences, and on many occasions he sang for audiences that were primarily white. As he became known nationwide as “the premiere baritone of the race” and as the leading black composer in the early twentieth century, he was often invited to present full recitals, to represent African Americans as part of a program of American music, or to give a lecture-recital on spirituals. One of Burleigh's favorite accompanists was pianist R. Augustus Lawson. This chapter also examines Burleigh's contribution to the tradition of African American art music, along with his use of the works of American song composers and his collaboration with them.

The Closing and Lasting Impact of CLAEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
Eduardo Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
American Composers ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Impact

This chapter evaluates the conditions leading to the closing of CLAEM and the impact the center as a whole had on the Latin American art music scene. Touching upon the three main themes of the book, the chapter discusses the lessons learned and the weaknesses revealed from the most significant philanthropic incursion into avant-garde art music in Latin America, and the lasting legacy of a generation of fellowship holders, both in terms of their embrace or rejection of the avant-garde, and their adoption of an identification as Latin American composers based on strong and intimate social bonds. It argues that the impact that the relatively short-lived center had during the following fifty years on the classical music of the region was the result of calculated philanthropic efforts, the embodied and multi-faceted embrace of avant-garde ideas, and the conscious and strategic construction and identification of Latin American composers.

scholarly journals Modernolatria (Modernolatry)

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (25) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Júlio Bernardo Machinski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Technological Advances

<p>Este texto trata-se da tradução de “Modernolatria”, quinto capítulo da primeira parte do livro <em>"Modernolatria" et "Simultaneità": recherches sur deux tendences dans l'avant-garde littéraire en Italie et en France à la veille de la première guerre mondial</em>, do historiador e tradutor sueco Pär Bergman. Após ter abordado o repúdio dos futuristas por todas as formas de culto ao passado, Bergman trata da fascinação dos artistas ligados à vanguarda italiana em relação às descobertas científicas e aos avanços tecnológicos no início do século XX. Segundo o pesquisador, o neologismo futurista “modernolatria”, num sentido amplo, buscava caracterizar o ambiente juvenil e antitradicionalista geral que serviu de contexto histórico ao movimento. Em sentido restrito, o termo refere-se à temática adotada pelos futuristas em todos os domínios das artes: literatura, pintura, música etc., questão que é tratada mais detidamente ao longo do capítulo.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This paper refers to portuguese translation of “Modernolatria”, Chapter 5 Part 1 of historian and translator Swedish Pär Bergman’s book, entitled <em>"Modernolatria" et "Simultaneità": recherches sur deux tendences dans l'avant-garde littéraire en Italie et en France à la veille de la première guerre mondial</em>. Having addressed the futurist repudiation for all forms of worship of the past, Bergman deals with the fascination of artists related to the Italian avant-garde for scientific discoveries and technological advances in the early twentieth century. According to researcher, the futuristic neologism "modernolatria" in a broad sense, sought to characterize the youth environment and general anti-traditionalist who served as the historical context to the movement. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the thematic adopted by futurists in all areas of arts: literature, painting, music etc., which are addressed in more detail throughout the chapter.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Futurism; modernolatry; simultaneity; historical vanguards.</p>

The Obligation to Choose

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Crossland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Light Quanta ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Night And Day ◽  
Scientific Ideas

Chapter 1 explores Woolf’s writings up to the end of 1925 in relation to scientific ideas on wave-particle duality, providing the ‘retrospect of Woolf’s earlier novels’ which Michael Whitworth has suggested shows that she was working ‘in anticipation of the physicists’. The chapter as a whole challenges this idea of anticipation, showing that Woolf was actually working in parallel with physicists, philosophers, and artists in the early twentieth century, all of whom were starting to question dualistic models and instead beginning to develop complementary ones. A retrospect on wave-particle duality is also provided, making reference to Max Planck’s work on quanta and Albert Einstein’s development of light quanta. This chapter pays close attention to Woolf’s writing of light and her use of conjunctions, suggesting that Woolf was increasingly looking to write ‘both/and’ rather than ‘either/or’. Among other texts, it considers Night and Day, Mrs Dalloway, and ‘Sketch of the Past’.

scholarly journals ‘From Zionism to Communism’: Emilio Sereni and the Consiglio di Gestione in postwar Italy

Modern Italy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Andrea Bonfanti
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Postwar Italy

This essay demonstrates that it is impossible to appreciate the actions of the Italian communist Emilio Sereni without considering his Zionist background. Anyone who is interested in understanding the complexities of communism in the past century and to avoid simplistic conclusions about this ideology will benefit from the study. The problem at stake is that researchers often approach communism in a monolithic manner, which does not adequately explain the multiform manifestations (practical and theoretical) of that phenomenon. This ought to change and to this extent this essay hopes to contribute to that recent strand of historical research that challenges simplistic views on communism. More specifically, by analysing the Management Councils that Sereni created in postwar Italy, we can see that many of their features in fact derived from, or found their deepest origins in, his previous experience as a committed socialist Zionist. The study, then, also relates Sereni to and looks at the broader experiences of early twentieth-century Zionism and Italian communism in the early postwar years.

Christianity, Plurality and Vernacular Religion in early Twentieth-Century Glastonbury: A Sign of Things to Come?

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 302-321
Author(s):  
Marion Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Vernacular Religion ◽  
Important Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Shed Light

This essay focuses upon a significant place, Glastonbury, at an important time during the early twentieth century, in order to shed light on a particular aspect of Christianity which is frequently overlooked: its internal plurality. This is not simply denominational diversity, but the considerable heterogeneity which exists at both institutional and individual level within denominations, and which often escapes articulation, awareness or comment. This is significant because failure to apprehend a more detailed, granular picture of religion can lead to an incomplete view of events in the past and, by extension, a partial understanding of later phenomena. This essay argues that by using the concept of vernacular religion a more nuanced picture of religion as it is – or has been – lived can be achieved.

scholarly journals a vital past

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-67
Author(s):  
Elena Grigoryeva ◽  
Konstantin Lidin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Meaning ◽  
Design And Construction

We lived and lived. But then, whoops!We found ourselves in other times…Timur Shaov. “Other times (listening to Galich once again)”Crises shaking our reality in the last decades happen so often that they overlap each other like roof tiles. Linear development of the second half of the twentieth century gave way to the era of cardinal changes. While building a new world, we strongly feel the need to preserve and comprehend the past. It is possible to understand the new only in comparison with the past. The disappearing world that consists of separate, isolated and selfcontained fragments is embodied in monuments of architecture. Images, techniques and practices of design and construction acquire a special meaning and new relevance in these new times. Wooden architecture of Siberia and stone merchant houses in Yalutorovsk, ancient churches and Leonidov’s avant-garde project, ruins of Stalin’s camps and the Korean Garden in Irkutsk are elements of the past that we need to understand the present. Protesting against the unification of tastes, breach of family relations and destruction of traditions, glocalization is on the rise.

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