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Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle book cover

1st Edition

Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin The Baton and Sickle

Edited By Neil Edmunds Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by composers and musicians in their attempts to carve out careers in a rapidly evolving society, discusses the role of music in Soviet society and people's lives, and shows how political ideology proved an inspiration as well as an inhibition. It explores... Read more
Acknowledgements A Note about Transliteration List of Contributors Introduction Neil Edmunds 1. Music in the Socialist State Anna Ferenc 2. The Ways of Russian Popular Music to 1953 Richard Stites 3. Declared Dead, but only Provisionally: Shostakovich, Soviet Music-hall and Uslovno Ubityi Gerard McBurney 4. From the Factory to the Flat: Thirty Years of the Song of the Counterplan John Riley 5. Prokofiev's Le Pas d'Acier: How the Steel was Tempered Lesley-Anne Sayers and Simon Morrison 6. 'Lenin is always with us': Soviet Musical Propaganda and its Composers during the 1920s Neil Edmunds 7. Amateurs and Enthusiasts: Folk Music and the Soviet State on Stage in the 1930s Robin LaPasha 8. National Identity, Culture Policy and the Soviet Folk Ensemble in Armenia Andy Nercessian 9. Going Beyond the Border: National Cultural Policy and the Development of Musical Life in Soviet Karelia, 1920-1940 Pekka Suutari 10. A Nation on Stage: Music and the 1936 Festival of Kazak Arts Michael Rouland 11. Uzeyir Hajibeyov and his role in the Development of Musical Life in Azerbaidzhan Matt O'Brien

Biography

Neil Edmunds is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of West of England, Bristol. He is author of The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement (Peter Lang, 2000), and his articles on early Soviet musical life have appeared in numerous journals, including Slavonic and East European Review, Tempo, and Muziek en Wetenschap.

'Any book that contains such a wealth of fresh research makes itself instantly indispensable to scholars working in its field, and Edmund's unprecendented drawing together of scholars from a wide range of diciplines has produced an extremely stimulating study.' - SEER

'The unique strength of this anthology is its attention to musical life beyond the Russian heartland ... Rouland moves beyond facile stereotypes.' - Slavic Review

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