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Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006

1 online resource (xix, 431 p.) : ill., music

ISBN 9781580466660 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781580462280 (print)

Eastman studies in music

Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-418) and index

Introduction : nationalism, modernism, and the social responsibility of art in Prague -- Smetana, Hostinsky, and the aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century -- Legacies, ideologies, and responsibilities : the polemics of the pre-independence years (1900-1918) -- "Archetypes who live, rejoice, and suffer" : Czech opera in the fin de siecle -- The pathology of the new society : debates in the early years of the First Republic (1918-24) -- Infinite melody, ruthless polyphony : Czech modernism in the early Republic -- "A crisis of modern music or audience?" : changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.

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(OCoLC)889955267

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