{"product_id":"bartzek-and-the-grotesque-julie-brown-9780754657774","title":"Bartók and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music","description":"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), BartÃ3k 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 BartÃ3k's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While BartÃ3k 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 BartÃ3k was composing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0754657779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780754657774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs","brand":"Julie Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086815867135,"sku":"9780754657774","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d562b86f-f3a0-4c01-a0cf-c6a435019ad1.jpg?v=1769096749","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bartzek-and-the-grotesque-julie-brown-9780754657774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}