Book Reviews : Modernization and Political-Tension Management: A Socialist Society in Perspec tive. Case Study of Poland. By DENNIS CLARK PIRAGES. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. Pp. xvi, 260. $16.50.) The Oder-Neisse Boundary and Poland's Modernization. The Socioeconomic and Political Impact. By Z. ANTHONY KRUSZEWSKI. (New York: Praeger Pub lishers, 1972. Pp. xviii, 245. $16.50.) The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Its Effects on Eastern Europe. Edited by E. J. CZERWINSKI and JAROSLAW PIEKALKIEWICZ. (New York: Praeger Pub lishers, 1972. Pp. x, 210. $14.00.)

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-180
Author(s):  
E. Taborsky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
Soviet Invasion ◽  
Tension Management

Modernization and Political-Tension Management: A Socialist Society in Perspective. Case Study of Poland

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Edward Taborsky ◽  
Dennis Clark Pirages ◽  
Z. Anthony Kruszewski ◽  
E. J. Czerwinski ◽  
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Society ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
Tension Management

“The Hora Staccato in Swing!”: Jascha Heifetz's Musical Eclecticism and the Adaptation of Violin Miniatures

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-431
Author(s):  
JOSHUA S. WALDEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
History Of

AbstractJascha Heifetz (1901–87) promoted a modern brand of musical eclecticism, recording, performing, and editing adaptations of folk and popular songs while remaining dedicated to the standard violin repertoire and the compositions of his contemporaries. This essay examines the complex influences of his displacement from Eastern Europe and assimilation to the culture of the United States on both the hybridity of his repertoire and the critical reception he received in his new home. It takes as its case study Heifetz's composition of the virtuosic showpiece “Hora Staccato,” based on a Romany violin performance he heard in Bucharest, and his later adaptation of the music into an American swing hit he titled “Hora Swing-cato.” Finally, the essay turns to the field of popular song to consider how two of the works Heifetz performed most frequently were adapted for New York Yiddish radio as Tin Pan Alley–style songs whose lyrics narrate the early twentieth-century immigrant experience. The performance and arrangement history of many of Heifetz's miniatures reveals the multivalent ways in which works in his repertoire, and for some listeners Heifetz himself, were reinterpreted, adapted, and assimilated into American culture.

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