Musical Solidarities
Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland
Andrea F. Bohlman
Reviews and Awards
"insightful and provocative" -- Larry Wolff, Revue de musicologie
"Original, compassionate, expansive, Andrea F. Bohlman's book sets a high standard for writings on music, sounds, and power during the Cold War. Using evidence from media history, material culture, and ethnography, spanning secular and sacred, cultivated and vernacular, she captures the cacophony of Solidarity in Poland but also compels us to hear its powerful present-day reverberations." -- Peter J. Schmelz, Arizona State University
"Musical Solidarities is a truly remarkable book: Bohlman makes the sounds of the Solidarity movement come alive for readers, with extraordinary sensitivity. It is a rare work of scholarship that is sure to have a profound impact on music studies and beyond." -- Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin
"In this pathbreaking study, Andrea F. Bohlman takes us on a remarkable journey, listening for, though, with, and against the ever-discordant voices of history. Bohlman is a writer like no other, a pioneering student of sound and its kaleidoscope of endlessly transmutable meanings. And Musical Solidarities is a book like no other. Simply put, you will never think about the Cold War and its endings in the same way again." -- Kevin C. Karnes, Emory University