TY - BOOK ID - 32304635 TI - Bartók and the grotesque : studies in modernity, the body and contradiction in music AU - Brown, Julie AU - Ashgate PY - 2010 SN - 9780754657774 0754657779 9781315096599 9781351574556 PB - Farnham Burlington Ashgate DB - UniCat KW - Grotesque in music. KW - Music KW - Grotesque dans la musique KW - Musique KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Bartók, Béla, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Bartokas, B., KW - Grotesque in music KW - Bartók, Béla UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32304635 AB - The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartók engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bartók's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Bartók developed each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartók was composing. ER -