Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground - Hardcover

Karnes, Kevin C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022680190X ISBN 13: 9780226801902

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Sounds Beyond charts the origins of Arvo Pärt’s most famous music, which was created in dialogue with underground creative circles in the USSR. 

In Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes studies the interconnected alternative music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s, revealing the audacious origins of some of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s most famous music. Karnes shows how Pärt’s work was created within a vital yet forgotten culture of collective experimentation, the Soviet underground. 
 
Mining archives and oral history from across the former USSR, Sounds Beyond carefully situates modes of creative experimentation within their late socialist contexts. In documenting Pärt’s work, Karnes reveals the rich creative culture that thrived covertly in the USSR and the network of figures that made underground performances possible: students, audio engineers, sympathetic administrators, star performers, and aspiring DJs. Sounds Beyond advances a new understanding of Pärt’s music as an expression of the aesthetic and religious commitments shared, nurtured, and celebrated by many in Soviet underground circles. At the same time, this story attests to the lasting power of Pärt’s music. Dislodging the mythology of the solitary creative genius, Karnes shows that Pärt’s work would be impossible without community.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kevin C. Karnes is professor of music and associate dean for the arts at Emory University. He is the author of Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa, A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, and Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 022680190X
• ISBN 13: 9780226801902
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 193
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar