- Title Pages
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Roth Family Foundation
- Endorsement
- Endorsement
- Dedication
- Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
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1 The Sounds of Revolution? -
2 Building an Empty Frame -
3 A Raucous Education -
4 From Warsaw to the World -
5 Mobilizing Performers, Scores, and Avant-Gardes -
6 The Limits of Exchange - Epilogue
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Appendix One Concert Program of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, 10–21 October 1956 -
Appendix Two Biographical Notes - Bibliography
- Index
A Raucous Education
A Raucous Education
Chapter 3 considers the effects that festival performances had on Warsaw Autumn audiences, as well the work these audiences performed through their listening practices. Public response was what demonstrated the Warsaw Autumn’s legitimacy as a socialist education project. Concertgoers’ uninhibited behaviors had additional meaning as forms of political action and strategies to accrue social and cultural prestige. Drawing on political scientist Michael Chwe’s theory of common knowledge formation, the chapter further argues that scandals were an important aspect of public education and taste formation at the Warsaw Autumn. The public contributed to the genre-making that took place via festival events, for their concert-hall behavior suggested that, in addition to various compositional styles and techniques, “contemporary music” entailed certain modes of audience response.
Keywords: listening, scandals, audiences, common knowledge, public education, taste, audience response, socialist education, genre
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- Title Pages
-
Roth Family Foundation
- Endorsement
- Endorsement
- Dedication
- Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
1 The Sounds of Revolution? -
2 Building an Empty Frame -
3 A Raucous Education -
4 From Warsaw to the World -
5 Mobilizing Performers, Scores, and Avant-Gardes -
6 The Limits of Exchange - Epilogue
-
Appendix One Concert Program of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, 10–21 October 1956 -
Appendix Two Biographical Notes - Bibliography
- Index
