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Music and power in the Soviet 1930s : a history of composers' bureaucracy / Simo Mikkonen ; with a foreword by Pauline Fairclough.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3917.R8 M55 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mikkonen, Simo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music and state--Soviet Union.
- Music and state.
- Music--Political aspects--Soviet Union.
- Music.
- Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism.
- Cultural policy.
- History.
- Music--Political aspects.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Cultural policy--History.
- Socialism and music.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 432 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Music and power in the Soviet nineteen thirties
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Between art, ideology and politics
- Evaluating the past and planning the future. Turning point : 1932? ; Advent of the new environment ; Music and the Party : an open marriage?
- Reshaping the Soviet musical stage. Musical structures and administrators ; Search for welfare ; Striving for professional control
- Ideology meets music. Connecting music with socialism ; Musicology resolves everything ; Searching for socialist realism
- The political turmoil : beyond 1936. The concentration : New era, new structures? ; The confrontation : committee vs. Composers' Union ; The conclusion : how composers learned to navigate
- Final word.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-422) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780773448353
- 0773448357
- OCLC:
- 310399545
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