Present Your Passports! : The Musical Borders of the ISCM and Expat Composers in Paris
- Lazzaro, Federico ORCID Université de Fribourg
- 2025 ; Wien : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Published in:
- Wegzeichen Neue Musik. Salzburg und die musikalische Zeitgenoss*innenschaft / Salzburg and Musical Contemporaneity / Hochrader, Thomas ; Werley, Matthiew. - 2025, p. 211-228
English
During the interwar period, internationalism functioned practically as a form of agreement between nations rather than as an abstract concept signifying the transcendence of the nation for the sake of artistic universalism. Cooperation between nations can however easily turn into a competition. This becomes evident in both music criticism and the organisation of the ISCM itself, which had yet to reconcile the tensions between its stated internationalism and its nationally partitioned organisational structure.
Focusing on foreign composers living in Paris, in particular Tibor Harsányi, this chapter provides a concrete example of the challenges that ‘expat’ composers faced in promoting their music internationally within the ISCM. Paradoxically, a cosmopolitan composer could not participate in the activities of an international society because they had to identify with “one and only one nation” to fit the national section selection process. Although the national sections were originally conceived for purely practical reasons, they threatened the ISCM’s cosmopolitan spirit by favouring the nationalistic and chauvinistic views of each country.
Focusing on foreign composers living in Paris, in particular Tibor Harsányi, this chapter provides a concrete example of the challenges that ‘expat’ composers faced in promoting their music internationally within the ISCM. Paradoxically, a cosmopolitan composer could not participate in the activities of an international society because they had to identify with “one and only one nation” to fit the national section selection process. Although the national sections were originally conceived for purely practical reasons, they threatened the ISCM’s cosmopolitan spirit by favouring the nationalistic and chauvinistic views of each country.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de musicologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Arts, Human and Social Science
- License
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CC BY-NC-ND
- Open access status
- gold
- Identifiers
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- ISBN 9783990942093
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334295
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