Border Traffic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Slobin
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Cultural Life

This chapter focuses on Detroit’s Jewish community, first taking up its complex, many-layered internal musical life, from religious to politically radical, across a range of initiatives and institutions. Next comes an analysis of how the group used music as a mode of outreach to mainstream Detroit, impacting the city’s cultural life, especially through intense engagement with classical music. The role of the Jews in the survival of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is outlined. Profiles of key activists’ careers—Julius Chajes, Mischa Mischakoff, Mischa Kottler, Emma Schaver--and the development of institutional life illustrate these practices of “border traffic.”

Chávez (y Ramírez), Carlos (Antonio de Padua) (1899–1978)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Taylor Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Carlos Chavez

Composer and conductor Carlos Chávez was a dominant force in Mexican musical life during the middle of the twentieth century. His most influential post was as director of the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico [OrquestaSinfónica, OSM], which he led from 1928 to 1948. While leading the OSM, Chávez successfully broadened concepts of classical music to include symphonic, contemporary works by Mexican composers. At the same time, he began an international guest-conducting career that continued into the final years of his life. Although best known for a handful of nationalist works composed in the 1920s and 1930s, Chávez’s compositions demonstrate a diversity of esthetic interests, from avant-garde abstraction to popular genres; regardless of the approach used in a given work, Chávez’s intellectualism and care are evident.

scholarly journals SOUTH KOREAN TV SERIES IN THE SERVICE OF MUSIC EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
SERGEI A. AIZENSHTADT ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The South ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Serial Films

In this article we study forms and methods used to popularize western classical music in a South Korean TV series. The main subject of analysis is the TV series Beethoven Virus (2008) devoted to a symphony orchestra in a fictional South Korean city. The main purpose of this TV series is the promotion of classical music, and the author of the article comes to the conclusion that its popularity among Korean audience is explained by its engaging, convincing artistic methods with respect to national cultural specificities, which were used to show the working environment of professional musicians. The series reveals real problems of modern Korean musical culture: “crisis of overproduction” of academic musicians; discrimination of graduates of South Korean musical educational institutions; prejudice that classical music is only for the rich. The author emphasizes that immersion into the atmosphere of professional musical life allows the viewers to apprehend the educational value of the TV series more clearly. Beethoven Virus demonstrates traditional Korean attitude towards European classical music determined by the Confucian roots; and at the same time, it depicts changes in the modern culture conditioned by gradual departure from traditional values. The two main characters — the young and the old conductors — symbolize the old and the new in the Korean musical culture. They interact in a traditional eastern way: the new spirit does not openly conflict with the established convention, but sprouts from it. The author suggests that the music is explained in the film through emotional associations which let the viewers fully perceive the musical idea. The author believes that this method, compared to other ways widespread in the West, corresponds to the nature of the specific sensation of European classical music associated with Confucian cultural roots. An opinion is expressed that methods of music education used in Beethoven Virus were chosen in accordance to the South Korean serial genre traditions: leitmotivs in the soundtrack and gesture clichés are of particular significance here. The author suggests that the South Korean experience of promoting musical classics by means of serial films can be used abroad — given that the differences in mentality and realities of musical life are taken into account.

scholarly journals PERSON OFJERZY GACHE THROUGH THE PERIODICALS IN THE 20-30TH YEARS OF THE XX CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Oksana Lehkun
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Teacher Leader ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Cultural Life

The article is based on the analysis of publications of periodicals in the 20-30th of the XX century the character and musical and creative activity of Jerzy Gache, one of the most active figures in the cultural life of Kremenets’ region of this period is characterized. The pedagogical activity of Jerzy Gache, who for 20 years worked as a music teacher, leader of the symphony orchestra and choir of the Kremenets’ Lyceum of the interwar period, was investigated. The geography of the concert performances and the repertoire of the musical groups of the educational institution is considered. It was found that being a head of the department of the Lviv Music Institute, which operated at the Kremenets’ Lyceum, and a teacher of the Musyczne ognisko wakacyjne, contributed to the deepening of music education in Kremenets’ region. Publications in periodicals of the 20-30s of the XX century. reveal the importance of musical auditions that took place on the initiative of Jerzy Gache, in deepening the musical culture and artistic and aesthetic education of the students of the Kremenets’ Lyceum. Based on the publication in «Życie Liceum Krzemienieckiego», the role of Jerzy Gache as the organizer and leader of the Volyn Symphony Orchestra was determined, the repertoire and concert performances of the collective were traced. It has been found out that the artist's participation in public and cultural and educational events is evidence of his active position in the music and educational life of the region. Key words: Kremenets’ Lyceum, Jerzy Gache, Volyn Symphony Orchestra, pedagogical and concert activities.

Motor City Music

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Slobin
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Musical Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Media ◽  
Special Case

The book combines memoir, interview, and archival sources to survey the musical life of the author’s hometown, Detroit, in his youth during the city’s heyday, 1940s–1960s. After an opening chapter on the formation of personal musical identity, the focus shifts to the formative role of the public school system in educating and shaping the careers of waves of highly talented youth, many of whom became leading figures in African American and classical music nationally. Next comes a panorama of the “neighborhood” subcultural musics of European, southern white, and southern black immigrants to Detroit, followed up by a close-up of the Jewish community’s special case. “Merging Traffic” considers the way that industry, labor, the counterculture, Motown, and the media brought many streams of music together. A final retrospective chapter cites the work of Detroit writers and artists who, like the author, have been looking back at the city’s impact on their work. This is the first-ever comprehensive survey of the musical life of any American city in a given time period.

Jewish Music Organizations in Interwar Galicia

2020 ◽  
pp. 343-370
Author(s):  
Sylwia Jakubczyk-ŚlĘczka
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Chamber Orchestra ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Musical Interests

This chapter provides a comprehensive account of Jewish musical organizations in interwar Galicia. It investigates the various types of Jewish musical organizations and how they implemented their cultural policies. It also shows the wealth and variety of the musical life of the Jewish communities from the four south-eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic: Lwów, Kraków, Stanisławów, and Tarnopol. The chapter looks into the goal of the Jewish Music Society in Lwów in order to unite the local Jewish musical community and represent the Jewish community in the city's musical life. It analyzes different musical interests and visions of society's cultural role that explain the different activities of symphony orchestra, choir, mandolin orchestra, and chamber orchestra.

Returning and Leaving

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Tina Frühauf
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
German Jewry ◽  
Cultural Mobility

Starting with the reinauguration of Westend Synagogue with organ, choir, and cantor, the Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main and its music practices during the 1950s serve as a case study to show a continuous dialectic between cultural change and persistence, which marked Jewish life in the Federal Republic at large during the postwar period. As such, the community provides an example of the threefold process of returning, rebuilding, and redefining which affected the establishment of its cultural life. This can be observed in several areas of musical practice. In synagogue service it pertained to the role of the cantor, choir, and the organ as an artifact most closely associated with liberal German Jewry. Outside of service, it concerned musical programs in the context of communal events and to a lesser extent commemoration. Each uniquely embodies and exemplifies facets of cultural mobility and its others.

scholarly journals Concert as a bourgeois institution

Sociologija ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Ana Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Divergent Behavior

This paper represents a socio-musical analysis of the importance and the role of the concert in 19th-century musical life. I describe characteristics of the concert as a social event, explain social mechanisms that made possible the constitution and existence of the concert, point to the importance of the social changes on the way this institution functioned, and I point to the certain values that were being made through the concert. Special attention is devoted to the analysis of different types of concerts, as well as to the causes and the consequences of those differences among them. Analyzing the concert as a social institution, I show the relations that exist between divergent behavior patterns that were made through the concerts, and I point to the effects the concert had on the cultural life of a certain historical period.

Pembinaan Semula Peradaban Komuniti Cina Muslim Berasaskan Dialog Antara Agama: Pengalaman di Terengganu dan Brunei

Sains Insani ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Azarudin Awang ◽  
Azman Che Mat ◽  
Sophian Ramli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Muslim Family

Bagi sesebuah negara yang mempunyai etnik pelbagai anutan kepercayaan dan perbezaan amalan budaya, dialog antara agama berperanan membetulkan semula kekaburan dalam kehidupan beragama dan berbudaya. Melalui peranan Saudara Baru, dialog antara agama mampu menjadi medan bagi menjelaskan kebenaran tentang agama Islam kepada masyarakat bukan Muslim dan pelaksanaan amalan budaya asal kepada Muslim asal. Objektif kajian ini ialah melihat pengalaman pelaksanaan dialog antara agama di Terengganu dan relevansi dalam kehidupan beragama di negara Brunei. Metode kajian ini menggunakan kajian dokumen yang menyentuh komuniti Cina Muslim di Terengganu dan Brunei. Pengalaman pelaksanaan dialog antara agama di Terengganu dan negara Brunei memperlihatkan dialog antara agama mampu membetulkan salah faham dan selanjutnya mengendurkan ketegangan hubungan antara agama dan budaya antara komuniti Saudara Baru, ahli keluarga bukan Muslim dan masyarakat Muslim asal. Biarpun begitu, adalah dicadangkan agar kajian yang menyentuh dialog antara agama perlu diperkukuhkan sebagai medium membina semula peradaban memandangkan penduduk di kedua-dua lokasi ini terdiri daripada berbilang etnik dan agama sedangkan pada masa yang sama masalah yang menyentuh hubungan antara agama sentiasa timbul. Abstract: For a country with diverse ethics of beliefs and cultural practices, interfaith dialogue plays a role to redefine ambiguity in religious and cultural life. Through the role of the New Muslim (Muslim Convert), interfaith dialogue can become a medium to explain the truth about Islam to the non-Muslims and the implementation of real cultural practices to the others Muslim. The objective of this study is to examine the experience of interfaith dialogue in Terengganu and in Brunei. The method of this study is being conducted in document research that related with the Muslim Chinese community in Terengganu and Brunei. In addition, interviews with people involved in the management of New Muslims also carried out. The experience of interfaith dialogue in Terengganu and Brunei shows that dialogue capable explains misunderstandings and further loosening the tension between religion and culture among New Muslims, non-Muslim family members and Muslim communities. However, it is recommended that studies on interfaith dialogue should be strengthened as a medium for rebuilding civilization as the residents of both locations are multi-ethnic and religious while at the same time the problem of interreligious persists.

MEDIA AND MODERNITY: THE ROLE OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN THE MODERNIZATION OF WESTERN SOCIETY

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-301
Author(s):  
Yuyun Sunesti
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Western Society ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Printing Method ◽  
Important Milestone

One of the influential factors in the formation of modern society in the Westernworld and subsequently spread to over the world has been the discovery of printing presswhich can be found in the form of printing method, printing company and print media.Since it was firstly used by Gutenberg in about 15th century AD, information which waspreviously delivered through oral medium with a limited audience, then through a methodof printing can be reproduced in large quantities and can be read by more audience, acrossdistance and time. Printing method which encourages the emergence of large printingcompanies and then print media has contributed in transforming modern cultural life ofsociety.In addition, the advent of the printing industries which has transformed intotransnational corporations as well as the emergence of journals and regular newspapersalso contributes significantly in raising public spaces as a medium for discussion andcritical thinking amidst society. Ultimately, this information media transformation brings achange in the state system which is more open and leads to the emergence of ideas ofnationalism which becomes an important milestone in transforming traditional societiesinto modern societies.

Dažu vācu muzikālo tradīciju pārnese latviešu kultūrtelpā 18. gadsimta II pusē

Letonica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Māra Grudule
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
German Society ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
Insight Into

The article gives insight into a specific component of the work of Baltic enlightener Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714–1796) that has heretofore been almost unexplored — the transfer of German musical traditions to the Latvian cultural space. Even though there are no sources that claim that Stender was a composer himself, and none of his books contain musical notation, the texts that had been translated by Stender and published in the collections “Jaunas ziņģes” (New popular songs, 1774) and “Ziņģu lustes” (The Joy of singing, 1785, 1789) were meant for singing and, possibly, also for solo-singing with the accompaniment of some musical instrument. This is suggested, first, by how the form of the translation corresponds to the original’s form; second, by the directions, oftentimes attached to the text, that indicate the melody; and third, by the genres of the German originals cantata and song. Stender translated several compositions into Latvian including the text of the religious cantata “Der Tod Jesu” (The Death of Jesus, 1755) by composer Karl Heinrich Graun (1754–1759); songs by various composers that were widely known in German society; as well as a collection of songs by the composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801) that, in its original form, was published together with notation and was intended for solo-singing (female vocals) with the accompaniment of a piano. This article reveals the context of German musical life in the second half of the 18th century and explains the role of music as an instrument of education in Baltic-German and Latvian societies.

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