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Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature
of Russian music-its ineffable "Russianness"-Marina Frolova-Walker
examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's
opera A Life for the Tsar in 1836 to the death of Stalin in 1953,
the years in which musical nationalism was encouraged and endorsed
by the Russian state and its Soviet successor. The author
identifies and discusses two central myths that dominated Russian
culture during this period-that art revealed the Russian soul, and
that this nationalist artistic tradition was founded by Glinka and
Pushkin. The author also offers a critical account of how the
imperatives of nationalist thought affected individual composers.
In this way Frolova-Walker provides a new perspective on the
brilliant creativity, innovation, and eventual stagnation within
the tradition of Russian nationalist music.
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