Classics for the Masses : Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin / Pauline Fairclough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairclough, Pauline, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fascinating 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 is often maintained, while documenting the efforts of musicians and bureaucrats during this period to keep musical channels open between Russia and the West.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Archival Sources

Soviet Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Propagandizing the Classics, 1917-1929

2. Cultural Revolution, Repertoire Politics and the Classics

3. Internationalism, Modernism and the 'Stalinist Enlightenment', 1932-1941

4. Turning Inwards: The Rise of Russian Nationalism, 1937-1941

5. From the Great Patriotic War to the Zhdanovshchina, 1941-1953

Conclusion

Biographies

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21943-1

OCLC:

959951319