Sounds Beyond: Arvo Paert and the 1970s Soviet Underground
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Sounds Beyond: Arvo Paert and the 1970s Soviet Underground

Sounds Beyond: Arvo Paert and the 1970s Soviet Underground

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Kevin C. Karnes (Author)  

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Sounds Beyond charts the origins of Arvo Paert's most famous music, which was created in dialogue with underground creative circles in the USSR. In Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes studies the interconnected alternative music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s, revealing the audacious origins of some of Estonian composer Arvo Paert's most famous music. Karnes shows how Paert's work was created within a vital yet forgotten culture of collective experimentation, the Soviet underground. Mining archives and oral history from across the former USSR, Sounds Beyond carefully situates modes of creative experimentation within their late socialist contexts. In documenting Paert's work, Karnes reveals the rich creative culture that thrived covertly in the USSR and the network of figures that made underground performances possible: students, audio engineers, sympathetic administrators, star performers, and aspiring DJs. Sounds Beyond advances a new understanding of Paert's music as an expression of the aesthetic and religious commitments shared, nurtured, and celebrated by many in Soviet underground circles. At the same time, this story attests to the lasting power of Paert's music. Dislodging the mythology of the solitary creative genius, Karnes shows that Paert's work would be impossible without community. 32 halftones CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Kevin C. Karnes is professor of music and associate dean for the arts at Emory University. He is the author of Arvo Paert's Tabula Rasa, A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, and Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History.
  • Contributor: Kevin C. Karnes
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226801902
  • Number of Pages: 216
  • Packaged Dimensions: 140x216x20mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2022-01-14
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Kevin C. Karnes is professor of music and associate dean for the arts at Emory University. He is the author of Arvo Paert's Tabula Rasa, A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, and Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History.

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