Music Divided: Bartók's Legacy in Cold War Culture Volume 7

by Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary's most renowned twentieth-century composer, B la Bart k. She shows how a tense period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249658
• ISBN13: 9780520249653
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 7.2"