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Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays
Richard Taruskin
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Description for Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays
Paperback. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. The author assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions. Num Pages: 560 pages, 23 music examples, 15 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 760.
This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful to investigate how the idea of nation embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions, before turning to ... Read more
This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful to investigate how the idea of nation embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions, before turning to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
760g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520288096
SKU
V9780520288096
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About Richard Taruskin
Richard Taruskin is the Class of 1955 Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1987 to 2014, after twenty-six years at Columbia University (man and boy). He is the author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, On Russian Music, Defining Russia Musically, and the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music.
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