The subject of this paper is the relation between individual and collective identity within the folk-music tradition, from the perspective of ethnomusicology. Solo folk musicians have more latitude than those who perform ...

'New age' was a trend which appeared in the music of the 1980's, bringing a new dimension to art music in general, especially in its reception. At first its development was stimulated by technological inventions, 'the ...

This essay examines a Korean opera-film Chunhyang (2000) to show how it departs from the standard practice of Western opera-film and how its uniqueness is generated by the characteristics of indigenous Korean opera P'ansori. ...

The music market of Hungary was manipulated by state authorities and the communist party from the 1960s until the 1980s. That distorted environment is the reason why the careers of two of the greatest Hungarian beat stars ...

Man kann den Entwicklungsprozess im Bereich der Mikrostruktur der Komposition in Nováks Kammermusikwerke, also der eigentlichen motivischthematischen Arbeit, betrachten. In dem Bestreben, auf das romantische, auf umfangreichen ...

It is little known that Nietzsche – appointed professor of classical philology at Basel University in his twenties – had postulated on the basis of rigorous textual studies that the leading classical philologists active ...

Thanks to the works of George Enescu, Romanian music achieved its first breakthrough onto the European scene in the years preceding World War I. In the inter-war period the number of Romanian composers who joined modern ...

L'ésprit nouveau des années 20 se traduit non seulement à travers L'oeuvre audacieuse d'Erik Satie, mais aussi dans l'esthétique néoclacissiste du Groupe des Six, formé en 1920. Ces jeunes compositeurs ne mettent pas ...

We discuss the political implications of the noise/silence dialectic in order to reflect on the urban and social materialities of sonic memory activism in the postYugoslav space. We see the privatization of public space ...

The history of music in the countries of Southern Europe has, in general, been examined either from the West or from the East.This has had to do with traditional and univestigated assumptions of divisions on religious ...