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Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin
Pauline Fairclough
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Description for Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; AVGC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor. Newly opened archives from the Leninist and Stalinist eras have shed new light on Soviet concert life, demonstrating how the music of the past was used to help mold and deliver cultural policy, how “undesirable” repertoire was weeded out during the 1920s, and how Russian and non-Russian composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, ... Read more
Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor. Newly opened archives from the Leninist and Stalinist eras have shed new light on Soviet concert life, demonstrating how the music of the past was used to help mold and deliver cultural policy, how “undesirable” repertoire was weeded out during the 1920s, and how Russian and non-Russian composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300217193
SKU
V9780300217193
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99-31
About Pauline Fairclough
Pauline Fairclough is senior lecturer in music, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, where her special interest is Soviet music and culture.
Reviews for Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin
“These books give fuller, finer-grained and better-shaded accounts of Soviet policy ups and downs and their impact on musicians than any previous study.”—Richard Taruskin, Times Literary Supplement Won the 2017 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Has just been awarded the Women's Forum Book Prize of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).