Limits of National History: Yoko Ono, Stefan Wolpe, and Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism

Confronting the National in the Musical Past

“…Recent studies of the cosmopolitan aesthetics and worldviews borne of experiences of exile and statelessness offer compelling challenges to the nationbased narratives that dominate histories of nineteenth and twentieth-century music (cf. Cohen 2012Cohen , 2014). Yet, while such scholarship is of considerable significance in its own right, the tendency within it to posit cosmopolitanism in direct opposition to nationalism can be limiting.…”

Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music: Local and Cosmopolitan Reciprocities in Ning for Pipa, Violin and Cello (2002)

“…. is only audible within the specific cultural and political time frame of the late twentieth-and early twenty-first century marked by the rise and prominence of China on the global political stage, coupled with the global popularity and widespread acceptance of Chinese culture" (2013, 105); see alsoBlackburn 2015 andCohen 2014.…”