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Title

The Nordic ingredient : European nationalisms and Norwegian music since 1905 / Michael Custodis, Arnulf Mattes (eds.).

Publication

Münster : Waxmann, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Custodis, Michael,
• Mattes, Arnulf,

Description

140 pages : illustrations (some color), music; 24 cm

Summary

Notions of the 'Nordic' have always been an issue in Norway's national identity building, both before and after it became a sovereign state in 1905. Accordingly, Norwegian music has expressed a sense of ambivalence towards being conceived as 'Nordic' from the outside. A strong sense of 'Norwegianness' (forged during the heroic age of cultural nation-building in the 19th century) was challenged by the advent of new, nationalistic currents in the 1930s, which used notions of the Nordic as a political weapon. This book shows how music expresses affirmation and ambivalence towards the 'Nordic' as an ingredient of Norwegian national identity across musical genres. Further, it explores the contingencies of national music and the dramatic changes in 20th-century European political history. At the same time, it sheds new light on the difference between musical nationalism and national music.

Series Statement

Münsteraner Schriften zur zeitgenössischen Musik, 2195-741X ; Band 4

Uniform Title

Münsteraner Schriften zur zeitgenössischen Musik ; Bd. 4.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Music > Norway > 20th century
• Music > Norway > 21st century
• Music
• Musik
• Nationalism > Norway > History > 20th century
• Nationalism > Norway > History > 21st century
• Nationalism in music
• Nationalism
• Nationalismus
• Nationalsozialismus
• Norway
• Norwegen

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The "Nordic ingredient"-- Introduction -- Manifesting the national idea: Edvard Grieg or how his biographers saw him / Ina Rupprecht -- Expressing "Nordic" greatness: Wagnerism in Norway 1905-1945 / Andreas Bussmann -- Ideas on national music in interwar Norway / Ingrid Loe Landmark (neé Dalaker) -- "Monumentalism" in Norway's music 1930-1945 / Arnulf Mattes -- Master or puppet? Cultural politics in occupied Norway under GW Müller, Gulbrand Lunde and Rolf Fuglesang / Michael Custodis -- Harald Saeverud's Kjempeviseslåtten : a typical resistance composition? / Friedrich Geiger -- Rebuilding Norwegian music from Valevåg to Tanglewood and Darmstadt / Arvid O. Vollsnes -- "Nordisk," "Aryan," "Identität": music for the New Right / Michael Custodis -- No escape from politics? On Grieg's afterlife in Norwegian memory culture / Arnulf Mattes -- Resistance to totalitarianism: the polyphony of literature and music / Boris Previšić.n

ISBN

3830938969

LCCN

9783830938965

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library