Stalin's Music Prize : Soviet Culture and Politics / Marina Frolova-Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frolova-Walker, Marina, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalin Prize--History.

Stalin Prize.

Music--Awards--Soviet Union.

Music.

Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the best in Soviet culture. This revealing study sheds new light on the Communist leader's personal tastes, the lives and careers of those honored, including multiple-recipients Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and the elusive artistic concept of "Socialist Realism," offering the most comprehensive examination to date of the relationship between music and the Soviet state from 1940 through 1954.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Note on the text

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. How It All Worked

2. The First Year

3. Prokofiev: The Unlikely Champion

4. Shostakovich: Hits and Misses

5. Shostakovich as a Committee Member

6. Myaskovsky and His School

7. Checks and Balances

8. High and Low

9. Awards for Performers

10. 1948 and Khrennikov's Rule

11. The Stalin Prize without Stalin

Conclusion

Appendix I: Music awards in composition

Appendix II: Other music awards (performance, non- musicians in production or performance, musicology)

Appendix III: All music awards year by year

Appendix IV: Prizes voted for by the KSP but never awarded (1953-54)

Appendix V: 'National' awards given to composers individually

Appendix VI: 'National' composers included as part of the team in films and opera, ballet and drama productions

Appendix VII: Awards given to popular song composers within the Music nomination

Appendix VIII: Membership of the KSP in 1940 and subsequent changes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

0-300-21599-1

OCLC:

957126100