Sounds Beyond

Arvo Part and the 1970s Soviet Underground

Sounds Beyond
Kevin C Karnes
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Hardback
h216 x 140mm - 216pg
17 Dec 2021 US
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9780226801902
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Sounds Beyond charts the origins of Arvo Part' 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 Part' s most famous music. Karnes shows how Part' 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 Part' 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 Part' 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 Part' s music. Dislodging the mythology of the solitary creative genius, Karnes shows that Part' s work would be impossible without community.
"With Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes gifts us a book that moves between archive and ethnography with imagination and care to profoundly reshape our understanding of the sonic, spiritual, and social worlds of the Soviet underground. Karnes is an accomplished storyteller who inhabits-and brings us into-the fecund, anxious scenes of Baltic musical life in the late 1970s that have had an outsized impact over the past five decades. Sounds Beyond locates the intonations of that time squarely in the lives of Arvo and Nora Part, Hardijs Ledins, Gidon Kremer, Andres Mustonen, Alexei Lubimov, and many others to forever alter our hearing of their music and knowledge of artistic networks in the Soviet underground. " * Jeffers Engelhardt, Amherst College * "This remarkable book presents a compelling account of collaboration, experimentation, and ingenuity at the margins of Soviet musical life. Through painstaking scholarship and profound empathy, Karnes makes the sounds of the Soviet underground come alive. " * Lisa Jakelski, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester * "In this sensitive, richly detailed portrait of the 1970s Soviet contexts for Arvo Part' s early tintinnabuli music, Karnes provides a fascinating glimpse of a lost time and place. Covering an eclectic range of genres and styles, from progressive rock to liturgical music (and beyond), Karnes' s book fundamentally alters our hearing of Part' s compositions and vastly expands our understanding of the subcultures in which they first flourished. " * Peter J. Schmelz, Arizona State University *
Kevin C. Karnes is professor of music and associate dean for the arts at Emory University. He is the author of Arvo Part' 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.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780226801902
Published: 17 Dec 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 216

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