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Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism

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Sounding Authentic considers the influences of nationalism, modernism, and technological innovation on representations of ethnic and national identities in twentieth-century art music. Author Joshua S. Walden discusses these forces through the prism of the "rural miniature" short violin and piano pieces based on folk song and dance styles. He examines the genre's origins in Europe as well as its reception in European diaspora communities in America, where it evoked memories of life before immigration, and he traces how ...

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Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism 2014, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199334667

Hardcover