{"product_id":"bartok-and-the-grotesque-studies-in-modernity-the-body-and-contradiction-in-music-9780754657774","title":"Bartók and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julie Brown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46930304270487,"sku":"9780754657774","price":14808.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780754657774.webp?v=1771606189","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bartok-and-the-grotesque-studies-in-modernity-the-body-and-contradiction-in-music-9780754657774","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}