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Transnational Historiography and Twentieth-Century Modernity: Rachmaninoff Beyond Russia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transnational Historiography and Twentieth-Century Modernity: Rachmaninoff Beyond Russia./
Author:	Niziol, Tegan Grace Edna.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	339 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05A.
Subject:	Music history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30571682
ISBN:	9798380833967

Transnational Historiography and Twentieth-Century Modernity: Rachmaninoff Beyond Russia.
Niziol, Tegan Grace Edna.

Transnational Historiography and Twentieth-Century Modernity: Rachmaninoff Beyond Russia. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 339 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2023.

My dissertation is a revisionary study of the historiography of musical modernism through the lens of the English-language reception of Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) international performance career. While conventional narratives of Western music history define musical modernism in aesthetic terms, focusing on advancements in musical style over time and within nationally bound spaces, recent scholarship has radically expanded understandings of modernism. Many musicologists now perceive musical modernism as including all practices that in some way respond to life in modernity, including those that cross or transcend national boundaries. This wholesale revisioning of modernism has opened an expansive realm of interpretative possibility for musical figures such as Rachmaninoff, who occupy marginalized historical spaces, excluded from the mainstream due to limiting historiographical parameters. Based on my analyses of music criticism in newspaper reviews, journal articles, and advertisements, I argue that the image of Rachmaninoff constructed by the press was shaped by a complex amalgamation of different factors, contributing to a much more nuanced and variegated narrative than his frequent portrayal as a conservative Russian Romantic in conventional historiography. The construction of Rachmaninoff's image in the press reveals a pronounced tension between his "Russianness" and other identity markers that cut across and transcended national identifications. Furthermore, my analyses demonstrate that during Rachmaninoff's lifetime, critics were already grappling with the conceptualization of modernism and Rachmaninoff's place within it. Rather than exclusively fixating on his perceived conservatism, the press routinely gestured to elements of a modernist identity: his active investment in early recording technology, his position as the most recent link in a longstanding musical lineage, the "greatness" of which was predictably inscribed in Germanic terms, and even markers of harmonic experimentation in his musical style. This re-examination of Rachmaninoff manifests the insights of recent historiographical trends that consider transnational musical practices and the diversity of ways that musicians responded to the conditions of early-twentieth-century mobility and technological modernity. In revealing facets of Rachmaninoff's modern, transnational musical identity, my study answers the impetus to re-situate musical activity in transnational, migratory, and cosmopolitan spheres, contributing to a musicology of global modernism. .

ISBN: 9798380833967Subjects--Topical Terms:

3342382
Music history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Historiography

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