1st Edition
Bakhtin and the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich Analysis as Dialogue
Foreword by Alan Street, Acknowledgement and Permissions, Note on Transliteration, Introduction, Chapter 1: “Reflection of a Reflection”: First-Order Musical Discourse and Bakhtinian Dialogism, Chapter 2: Symphonizing the Word: Four Case Studies, Chapter 3: Re-Accentuating the Word: Translating Literature into Opera, Chapter 4: Finalizing “Nothing”: Thematizing Mortality in Symphony no. 14, Chapter 5: Chaos and Acceptance: Plot in Symphony no. 9, Conclusion: Hedgehogs and Foxes
Biography
Miriam Brack Webber holds a PhD from the University of Kansas. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Honors Program at Bemidji State University. Her research investigates narrative processes within Shostakovich’s works as these processes relate to Soviet literary theory. Other research interests include emotion, pedagogy, and performance studies
