Andrea F. Bohlman, Musical Solidarities
Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21992804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliana M Pistorius, Juliana Pistorius (0000-0002-9824-3857, The Century Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2110-6134 • E-ISSN: 2110-6134 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/transposition.8581 |
| OpenAlex | W4389444519 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In recent years, simplistic accounts of song as sonic protest have increasingly been subject to critical reappraisal.As repertories and methodologies diversify, scholarship on the sounds of political dissent has begun to embrace contestation, ambiguity and extra-academic approaches. 1 With Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland, Andrea Bohlman adds to the growing diversification of studies in sonic struggle.Examining the sounds of the opposition to state socialism in 1980s Poland, the book resists a simple teleological account of the role and power of grassroots movements to affect political change.Bohlman proceeds from a commitment to "hear, heed, and echo [] demands to re-examine, deconstruct, and complicate Polish history by letting its materials resound" (p.3).Her study, which focuses on the activities surrounding the Solidarity workers' movement, adds an acoustic dimension to a political narrative that has until now predominantly been constructed around metaphors of silence. 2 Musical Solidarities shows that life under oppressive regimes, though frequently characterised as mute, may in fact be richly sonic, yielding its own particular repertoire of sounds conditioned by, but also occasionally independent of, socio-political circumstances.The monograph's subtitle emphasises the project's focus on action.In Bohlman's treatment, this preoccupation extends beyond the obvious realm of political protest, to
Art · Economic history · Literature · Musical · Political action · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |