J Mackenzie Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 5961674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Mackenzie Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Mackenzie |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Musical Solidarities
The Solidarity trade union (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy “Solidarność”) was the catalyst in the collapse of state socialism in Poland and has been lionized as a key force in the ending of the Cold War. With a peak membership of nearly a third of Poland’s working-age population, Solidarity persevered through state-led oppression to become the main protagonist in the negotiated end to one-party rule in 1989. Its activists went on to defin…
Socialist Laments
Socialist Laments casts new light on how music helped people grieve and respond to trauma in the German Democratic Republic, from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s. Sprigge uses music as a prism for examining such varied topics as the status of ruined city centres after the war, the burial protocols deployed during state funerals, and the commemoration of the victims of concentration camps. Mourning functions as an umbrella concept tha…
Global Chopin
The 1949 Chopin Year was a large-scale cultural mobilization whose purpose was to bring Chopin’s music to hundreds of thousands of Poles and to promote it around the world, all funded and overseen by Poland’s newly established Communist state. Among the most striking aspects of the Chopin Year was its extensive international programming: not only did Polish diplomatic missions convince around thirty countries to organize Chopin celebrations that …
Messianism Refigured
This essay explores the commemorative stance of Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s opera The Anointed (1951) toward the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and situates the work within an early and volatile period of cultural responses to the Holocaust in Poland and the United States. Through a close examination of the opera’s literary sources and musical setting, as well as the archival materials related to its creation, the essay shows how the opera treats Polish Ro…
Zofia Lissa, Wartime Trauma, and the Evolution of the Polish “Mass Song”
Scholars have primarily seen the musicologist Zofia Lissa (1908–80) as a communist ideologue and key instigator of the Sovietization of Polish musical culture after World War II. An examination of materials from seven archives in three countries related to her life reveals a more complex picture of her views and of how she deployed her power. Before World War II she was a fierce advocate for both modernist aesthetics and communist politics, as we…
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Zofia Lissa, Wartime Trauma, and the Evolution of the Polish “Mass Song”
Scholars have primarily seen the musicologist Zofia Lissa (1908–80) as a communist ideologue and key instigator of the Sovietization of Polish musical culture after World War II. An examination of materials from seven archives in three countries related to her life reveals a more complex picture of her views and of how she deployed her power. Before World War II she was a fierce advocate for both modernist aesthetics and communist politics, as we…
Global Chopin
The 1949 Chopin Year was a large-scale cultural mobilization whose purpose was to bring Chopin’s music to hundreds of thousands of Poles and to promote it around the world, all funded and overseen by Poland’s newly established Communist state. Among the most striking aspects of the Chopin Year was its extensive international programming: not only did Polish diplomatic missions convince around thirty countries to organize Chopin celebrations that …
Messianism Refigured
This essay explores the commemorative stance of Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s opera The Anointed (1951) toward the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and situates the work within an early and volatile period of cultural responses to the Holocaust in Poland and the United States. Through a close examination of the opera’s literary sources and musical setting, as well as the archival materials related to its creation, the essay shows how the opera treats Polish Ro…
Musical Solidarities
The Solidarity trade union (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy “Solidarność”) was the catalyst in the collapse of state socialism in Poland and has been lionized as a key force in the ending of the Cold War. With a peak membership of nearly a third of Poland’s working-age population, Solidarity persevered through state-led oppression to become the main protagonist in the negotiated end to one-party rule in 1989. Its activists went on to defin…
Socialist Laments
Socialist Laments casts new light on how music helped people grieve and respond to trauma in the German Democratic Republic, from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s. Sprigge uses music as a prism for examining such varied topics as the status of ruined city centres after the war, the burial protocols deployed during state funerals, and the commemoration of the victims of concentration camps. Mourning functions as an umbrella concept tha…
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Communism (3 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works)