This book focuses on the relationship between identity and music in Europe from different angles. It takes two basic categories into account: identities in music and music in identities. The authors provide studies on identity construction in different historical and geographical contexts. They also evaluate the discourse of popular music in Europe and analyze various topics related to complex and changing concepts of identity, whether it is about an individual composer, issues of style or musical work itself.
The Velvet Curtain. European Identities and Lithuanian Musical Imagination in the Post-Communist Era – Karol Szymanowski and his Concept of Polish Music. Contexts and Resonance – Portugal From «Good Other» to «Ideal Self»: Images of Russian Otherness i
