Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

Brigid Cohen is Assistant Professor of Music at New York University. Her teaching and research focus on twentieth-century avant-gardes, questions of migration and diaspora, theories of cosmopolitanism and relationships between music, the visual arts and literature. Her work has been recognized with awards from the American Musicological Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Paul Sacher Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Research Institute. She is a recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.

• Introduction; 1. Wolpe's self-revelatory poetics and critical reflections, circa 1951; 2. Weimar-era montage and avant-garde community; 3. 'Amalgamated' musics and national visions in 1930s Palestine; 4. The mid-century poetics and politics of experimental community; Epilogue: the witnessing memory; Select bibliography.

"The importance of this well-researched book on German-born composer Stefan Wolpe lies as much in descriptions of milieux as in its treatment of Wolpe and his music … The book compares favorably with extant Wolpe scholarship … It will be required reading for scholars of twentieth-century music." Choice