عنوان

Classics for the masses :

(Number (ISBN

0300217196

(Number (ISBN

9780300217193

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Classics for the masses :

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[Book]

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shaping Soviet musical identity under Lenin and Stalin /

First Statement of Responsibility

Pauline Fairclough.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Haven :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2016]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 283 pages :

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illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.

Text of Note

Propagandizing the classics, 1917-1929 -- Cultural revolution, repertoire politics, and the classics -- Internationalism, modernism, and the 'Stalinist enlightenment, ' 1932-1941 -- Turning inwards : the rise of Russian nationalism, 1937-1941 -- From the great patriotic war to the Zhdanovshchina, 1941-1953.

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"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, Wagner, Bach, and Rachmaninov were 'canonized' during different, distinct periods in Stalinist culture. Fairclough's study of the ever-shifting Soviet musical-political landscape identifies 1937 as the start of a cultural Cold War, rather than occurring post-World War Two, as often maintained, while documenting the efforts of musicians and bureaucrats during this period to keep musical channels open between Russia and the West."--Provided by publisher.

Parallel Title

Shaping Soviet musical identity under Lenin and Stalin

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava

Music-- Soviet Union-- History and criticism.

Music.

Musik

Musik-- historia.

Soviet Union.

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Edition

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Book number

Fairclough, Pauline,1970-

Date of Transaction

20200822100640.0

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