The Nordic ingredient
Subtitle: European nationalisms and Norwegian music since 1905
By: Michael Custodis, Arnulf Mattes (eds.).
Series: Münsteraner Schriften zur zeitgenössischen Musik -- Band 4; Münsteraner Schriften zur zeitgenössischen Musik -- Bd. 4.
Publisher: Waxmann
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783830938965
Subjects: Music; Nationalism; History; Nationalism in music; Musik; Nationalismus; Nationalsozialismus
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Nordic ingredient"; title: Introduction; title: Manifesting the national idea: Edvard Grieg or how his biographers saw him / Ina Rupprecht; title: Expressing "Nordic" greatness: Wagnerism in Norway 1905-1945 / Andreas Bussmann; title: Ideas on national music in interwar Norway / Ingrid Loe Landmark (neé Dalaker); title: "Monumentalism" in Norway's music 1930-1945 / Arnulf Mattes; title: Master or puppet? Cultural politics in occupied Norway under GW Müller, Gulbrand Lunde and Rolf Fuglesang / Michael Custodis; title: Harald Saeverud's Kjempeviseslåtten : a typical resistance composition? / Friedrich Geiger; title: Rebuilding Norwegian music from Valevåg to Tanglewood and Darmstadt / Arvid O. Vollsnes; title: "Nordisk," "Aryan," "Identität": music for the New Right / Michael Custodis; title: No escape from politics? On Grieg's afterlife in Norwegian memory culture / Arnulf Mattes; title: Resistance to totalitarianism: the polyphony of literature and music / Boris Previšić.n