Apr 6, 2008

New book: Music and Nationalism in South East Europe

ETUDES BALKANIQUES

13-2006. Creation musicale et nationalismes dans le Sud-Est europeen. Volume dirigé par KOKKONIS (G.). 299 p., 1 CD audio, 2006, (580 g)

Musical creation and nationalisms in South-East Europe

This volume proposes a series of articles, which relate to the art music creations of the countries of South-East Europe and their statute of expressions of the "national" within the framework of the State-nations. Badly known and ignored, these musical creations do not exist apart from the chapters of the "National Schools" of the handbooks of history of music. Their statute is defined in the otherness, which is that of the European periphery, rich of " local colours ", but "postponed" and without impact.

In the culture which generates them, they incorporate the ethnocentric ideological bases, but also all the constitutional concepts of the national identity, while investing on the historical past and the cultural tradition whose language, religion and the popular tradition are the most trustful guarantors. The conditions of their creation, between the indigenous artistic expression (the us) and that of the Central Europe (the other), determine in a decisive way the management of the cultural strategies and the local personal confrontations. But they also engage of the ideas and the styles in original expressions, although confined with the margins of the international artistic evolutions.

AUTHOR(S) : KOKKONIS (G.).

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