Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II

Notes ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
Richard Jackson ◽  
D. W. Krummel ◽  
Jean Geil ◽  
Doris J. Dyen ◽  
Deane L. Root
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Music History ◽  
American Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Source Materials

Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II

1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Beverley Cavanagh ◽  
D. W. Krummel ◽  
Jean Geil ◽  
Doris J. Dyen ◽  
Deane L. Root
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Music History ◽  
American Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Source Materials

Maria Krzeczunowicz (1895-1945?). „Prawa ręka” gen. Tadeusza Bora-Komorowskiego – prolegomena

2021 ◽  
pp. 355-378
Author(s):  
Renata Król-Mazur
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Right ◽  
Source Materials

MARIA KRZECZUNOWICZ (1895-1945?) – “THE RIGHT HAND” OF GENERAL TADEUSZ BÓR-KOMOROWSKI – PROLEGOMENA The aim of the work is to outline the figure of Maria Krzeczunowicz (aka “Dzidzia”, “Dzidzi”, “Wanda”, “Roma”, “Maria Rzewuska”, “Maria Piotrowska”), a landowner who during World War II rendered great services to the Home Army of the Kraków Area, as well as to the courier activity in the “South” section. The author focuses on presenting her underground work in the country (ZWZ-AK Kraków Area) and in the ZWZ-AK foreign military contact base in Budapest. The article outlines her activities as an emissary and courier. A hypothesis was put forward about the possible cooperation of M. Krzeczunowicz with British intelligence. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation at the time of writing this text and the related limitations in the availability of source materials, it was not possible to fully describe the figure of this wonderful woman. The author had to be limited to only providing a biographical outline – many issues were not touched at all or only signalled. Therefore, this work is a starting point for further, in-depth research on the biography of one of the most trusted associates of Gen. Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski and at the same time the most trusted courier of the Polish independence underground.

scholarly journals Prescribing Sound: Willem Van de Wall and the Carceral Origins of American Music Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
J. Martin Vest
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
American Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Bourgeois Modernity

From 1921 until 1936, musician Willem Van de Wall pioneered the modern use of therapeutic music in American prisons and psychiatric institutions. His therapy was steeped in the methods and philosophy of social control, and after World War II, it shaped the professionalizing field of music therapy. Van de Wall's influence reveals an overlooked connection between modern clinical practice and the techniques of control employed in prisons and psychiatric hospitals of the early twentieth century. Given music therapy's broader impact as an element of postwar self-help culture, its relationship to social control practices also disrupts longstanding scholarly ideas about the so-called “therapeutic ethos.” The therapeutic ethos did not originate solely in efforts by the middle classes to adjust to bourgeois modernity. The case of music therapy suggests that some elements of “therapeutic culture” were always coercive and always directed toward the maintenance of race, gender, and class hierarchies.

Latin/Pan-American Music

2020 ◽  
pp. 172-192
Author(s):  
Pablo Palomino
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Latin American Music ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Charles Seeger ◽  
Latin Americanism

This chapter explains the pan-American absorption of Latin Americanism during World War II and the inception of the “world music” discourse that led to the creation of UNESCO. It focuses on the work of Charles Seeger as director of the Pan American Union’s Music Division from the years leading to the United States entry into the war to the immediate postwar years. The chapter analyzes a host of actors and initiatives, by the Pan American Union and other music-related associations, that influenced the consolidation of Latin American music and inter-Americanism as fields of musicological and educational practice. It illuminates the place of Latin American music in the convergence of nationalist traditions, hemispheric rhetoric, and global horizons among musicological and diplomatic actors as World War II came to an end.

Birdsong and the Image of Evolution

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Mundy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Music History ◽  
World War ◽  
Graphic Image ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Human Ear ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Descent Of Man

AbstractFor nearly a quarter of Darwin's Descent of Man (1871), it is the singing bird whose voice presages the development of human aesthetics. But since the 1950s, aesthetics has had a perilous and contested role in the study of birdsong. Modern ornithology's disillusionment with aesthetic knowledge after World War II brought about the removal of musical studies of birdsong, studies which were replaced by work with the sound spectrograph, a tool that changes the elusive sounds of birdsong into a readable graphic image called a spectrogram. This article narrates the terms under which the image, rather than the sound, of birdsong has become a sign of humanity's ability to reason objectively. Drawing examples from the strange evolutionary tales that exist at the juncture of ornithology, music history, illustration, and linguistics, this story suggests how it was that the human ear disappeared in the unbridgeable gap between the sciences and the study of aesthetics so tellingly termed "the humanities."

Negotiating Cultural Allies: American Music in Darmstadt, 1946-1956

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Beal
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
English Translation ◽  
American Music ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
West Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Catalytic Role

In the context of postwar and Cold War cultural politics, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik set the stage for Germany's ambivalent reception of American music in the decades following World War II. This article weighs the catalytic role of American music in Darmstadt between 1946 and 1956; traces the relationships among U. S. cultural officers, German patrons, and representatives of American music in Darmstadt; and describes events in Darmstadt that led to a growing interest in American experimental music in West Germany. An English translation of Wolfgang Edward Rebner's 1954 Ferienkurse lecture "American Experimental Music" is included as an appendix.

scholarly journals The Development of the Austrian Jazz Scene and Its Identity 1960-1980

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-157
Author(s):  
Christa Bruckner-Haring
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Music History ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts

In Austria, a country steeped in music history and famous for composers such as Mozart, Haydn, and Bruckner, jazz was quick to earn a place in the cultural landscape. After World War II, important jazz scenes rapidly evolved in Vienna and Graz and, particularly from the 1960s onwards, grew into a strong and independent national jazz scene. Its musicians and ensembles focussed on developing their own characteristics and styles. This article examines primary aspects of the jazz scene during these formative years, such as the series of amateur jazz festivals held in the 1960s, Friedrich Gulda's commitment to jazz, Graz as a jazz centre and the institutionalisation of jazz at the Academy of Music in Graz in 1965, the role of the Austrian broadcasting network (ORF), and the impact of the Vienna Art Orchestra. In addition to archival records and musicological and journalistic texts, interviews conducted with members of different parts of the jazz scene offer important insights into the development of jazz during this period (with musicians, ensembles, educators and researchers, festival and venue organisers, agencies and policy makers, members of the media). This article offers an overview of pertinent aspects of the Austrian jazz scene between 1960 and 1980, revealing opinions about the influence of these aspects on the formation of Austrian jazz identity.

scholarly journals OUN's anti-Soviet resistance and the activities of Ukrainians from Eastern Galicia to preserve national foundations in Lemkivshchyna in 1939–1941

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Igor LYUBCHYK
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
State Building ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
World War ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Important State ◽  
Source Materials

The article outlines events that are indirectly and directly related to the OUN and the activities of the intelligentsia from Eastern Galicia in the territory of Lemkivshchyna during the first Sovietization of Western Ukraine. The outbreak of World War II became a new test for the population of the Ukrainian-Polish-Slovak borderlands in the context of the ethno-national transformations of Central and Eastern Europe. The methodological basis is a comprehensive approach to the analysis of this problem. Since the beginning of the Sovietization of Galicia in 1939 the authorities have resorted to increased propaganda among the Lemkos for their departure to the USSR while taking advantage of the deplorable social situation of the locals and their low level of self-consciousness. Simultaneously, the most active figures of the region together with the local representatives of the OUN underground tried in various ways, from agitation to deliberately provoked false calls, to prevent the Lemkos from departure to the USSR. In the study based on source materials revealed the peculiarities of counteraction of local representatives of the nationalist underground to the Bolshevik propaganda in Lemkivshchyna of the departure to the Ukrainian SSR. At the same time the article reveals the nature of the activity of the intelligentsia from Eastern Galicia among the Lemkos. It is emphasized that immediately since the beginning of the World War ІІ considering the Bilshovyks occupation of Eastern Galicia, conscious and committed Ukrainians, began to arrive in Galician Lemkivschyna. They led an active public activity among Lemkos in schools, cooperatives, in cultural and educational institutions. It has been proved that the emigrants-refugees of the local intelligentsia from Eastern Galicia, despite the short stay in the Lemkos territories, played an important role in consolidating the region's national forces, actively working to raise the level of self-consciousness of the population of the region, thereby affirming the strong national foundations of the Lemkos region. The prospects of further research are to find out how the Soviet regime prepared the ground for violent deportation, initially through voluntary resettlement of Lemkos. The lessons and consequences of this event show that important state-building processes require thorough preparation and unity of all national forces. Keywords Lemkivshchyna, Lemkos, OUN, Sovietization, resettlement, national-cultural movement, intelligentsia, Lemkivshchyna, Lemkos, Eastern Galicia, Bolshevik propaganda.

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