Dr. Andras Ronai (Hungary Independent Scholar), Professor or Dr. Anna Szemere (Central European Visiting Professor

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

Herausgeber: Holt, Fabian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For decades, the state-run music industry in Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. The 2010 album I'll Be Your Plaything is a concept album comprising at times drastically re-imagined cover versions of Hungary's most popular hits from the socialist era. As such it is a testament to music as a medium's aptness to reflect on public and personal pasts. The album moreover exemplifies how rich and appealing synthesis of sounds and traditions can be concocted when folk, classically trained, rock, and jazz musical artists collaborate. Along with this freedom to blend and synthesize, the album opens up some long overdue space for women; playing with personas, voices, and singing styles, Palya reflects on issues of femininity, maternity, sexuality, and coupledom across generations.

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Produktdetails

• 33 1/3 Europe
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 452947
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781501354427
• ISBN-10: 1501354426
• Artikelnr.: 59911888

Autorenporträt

Anna Szemere and András Rónai

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Playing Music, Playing with Music: Bea Palya and Samu Gryllu's Musical
Partnerships
2. Memory Work with Souvenirs, Bronzes, and Tunes of State Socialism
3. "Play it One More Time, Play it All Night Long": Recycling, Re-working,
and Reflecting in Popular Music Discourse
4. Start Making a New Sense
5. "A Babe in Toyland" or Pop-cultural Feminism in Bea Palya's Music and
Early Career (2005-2014)
6. In the Aftermath of "I'll Be Your Plaything": A Woman Writing her Self
References
Track Listing of "I'll Be Your Plaything"
Discography
Index