Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933

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Emily MacGregor (King's College London)

Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination

Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933

Emily MacGregor (King's College London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
26 January 2023

Music reviews & criticism; 20th century & contemporary classical music; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

Series: Music in Context

The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.

By: Emily MacGregor (King's College London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781009172783
ISBN 10: 1009172786
Series: Music in Context
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 26 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Between Europe and America: Kurt Weill's Symphony in a Suitcase; 2. Listening for the Intimsphäre in Hans Pfitzner's Symphony in C-sharp Minor: Berlin; 3. Liberalism, Race, and the American West in Roy Harris's Symphony 1933: Boston – New York; 4. Aaron Copland's and Carlos Chávez's Pan American Bounding Line: New York – Mexico City; 5. Arthur Honegger's 'modernised Eroica': Paris – Berlin; 6. The right kind of symphonist: Florence Price and Kurt Weill New York & Chicago 1933–1934 – London, 2020.

Emily MacGregor is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Music Department, King's College London. She was awarded the 2019 Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association for a distinguished article by a scholar at an early stage of their career, and previously held a Marie Curie Global Fellowship. Dr MacGregor appears regularly on BBC Radio 3.