TY - JOUR
AU - Pierce, J. Mackenzie
AB - Reviews 877 thought—and a model for how we might flip the script in pursuit of fr esh ideas and insights. SETH MONAHAN Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland, by Andrea F. Bohlman. New Cultural History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiv, 321 pp. The Solidarity trade union (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy “Solidarność”) was the catalyst in the collapse of state socialism in Po- land and has been lionized as a key force in the ending of the Cold War. With a peak membership of nearly a third of Poland’s working-age popula- tion, Solidarity persevered through state-led oppression to become the main protagonist in the negotiated end to one-party rule in 1989. Its activists went on to define Polish politics of the 1990s. Andrea F. Bohlman has written a deeply original, learned account of the movement and the broader milieu of the Polish opposition to state socialism in the 1980s. Centrally, the book focuses on how solidarity with a lowercase “s”— the abstract no- tion of coherence and collective belonging—was enacted through sound, music, and aural culture within the Polish opposition. The study is neither an account of how prominent musicians supported Solidarity nor a 
TI - Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland, by Andrea F. Bohlman
JF - Journal of the American Musicological Society
DO - 10.1525/jams.2023.76.3.877
DA - 2023-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/musical-solidarities-political-action-and-music-in-late-twentieth-w31JaAba4K
SP - 877
EP - 880
VL - 76
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -