Symphonic Stalinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Symphonic Stalinism write by Jiří Smrž. This book was released on 2011. Symphonic Stalinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Soviet system of rule that developed under Stalin featured management of the arts by political authorities, and the main doctrine inspiring and justifying this activity was "socialist realism." The definition of socialist realism emerged through a fluid process, marked by twists and turns and at times even contestation, in which critics, scholars, and creators alike gave the doctrine practical meaning. Symphonic Stalinism tells this story for music, and author Jiri Smrz examines it in much greater detail than any other scholar before him. In the process, Smrz emphasizes the crucial role played by musicologists, which was probably unique in the history of that discipline internationally. (Series: Osteuropa - Vol. 4)
Symphony for the City of the Dead
Symphony for the City of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Symphony for the City of the Dead write by M.T. Anderson. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Symphony for the City of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.
Shostakovich and Stalin
Shostakovich and Stalin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shostakovich and Stalin write by Solomon Volkov. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Shostakovich and Stalin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. Solomon Volkov—who cowrote Shostakovich’s controversial 1979 memoir, Testimony—describes how this lethal uncertainty affected the composer’s life and work. Volkov, an authority on Soviet Russian culture, shows us the “holy fool” in Shostakovich: the truth speaker who dared to challenge the supreme powers. We see how Shostakovich struggled to remain faithful to himself in his music and how Stalin fueled that struggle: one minute banning his work, the next encouraging it. We see how some of Shostakovich’s contemporaries—Mandelstam, Bulgakov, and Pasternak among them—fell victim to Stalin’s manipulations and how Shostakovich barely avoided the same fate. And we see the psychological price he paid for what some perceived as self-serving aloofness and others saw as rightfully defended individuality. This is a revelatory account of the relationship between one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers and one of its most infamous tyrants.
Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia
Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia write by Boris Schwarz. This book was released on 1983. Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stalin's Music Prize
Stalin's Music Prize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalin's Music Prize write by Marina Frolova-Walker. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Stalin's Music Prize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
