Informationen zum Autor Philip V. Bohlman is Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USA and Artistic Director of the cabaret ensemble, New Budapest Orpheum Society. He is the author of many books including Wolokolamsker Chaussee (2021) part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Europe series. He is the 2022 International Balzan Prize Laureate in Ethnomusicology. Klappentext By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the "crisis of Europe" today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified? A vast range of musical styles-from folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metal-coalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1989/90 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it. 33 1/3 Global , a series related to but independent from 33 1/3 , takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese, Brazilian, and European music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and more.Discusses the legendary ECM recording that serves as a collage of fragments from across European music and literary history. Zusammenfassung By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the crisis of Europe today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified? A vast range of musical stylesfrom folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metalcoalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1989/90 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it. 33 1/3 Global , a series related to but independent from 33 1/3 , takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese, Brazilian, and European music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Sources and Translations Preface Introduction - Sounding the Wounded Dialectic 1. Russian Gambit 2. Forest near Moscow 3. The Duel 4. Centaurs 5. The Foundling Epilogue: The End of Epic as Its Beginning Bibliography ...

Vorwort
Discusses the legendary ECM recording that serves as a collage of fragments from across European music and literary history.

Autorentext
Philip V. Bohlman is Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USA and Artistic Director of the cabaret ensemble, New Budapest Orpheum Society. He is the author of many books including Wolokolamsker Chaussee (2021) part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Europe series. He is the 2022 International Balzan Prize Laureate in Ethnomusicology.

Klappentext

By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the "crisis of Europe" today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified? A vast range of musical styles-from folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metal-coalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1989/90 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese, Brazilian, and European music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Sources and Translations

Preface

Introduction - Sounding the Wounded Dialectic

1. Russian Gambit

2. Forest near Moscow

3. The Duel

4. Centaurs

5. The Foundling

   Epilogue: The End of Epic as Its Beginning

   Bibliography