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Classics for the Masses - Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin (Hardcover)
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Classics for the Masses - Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin (Hardcover)
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Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music
in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a
revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an
unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and
dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor.
Newly opened archives from the Leninist and Stalinist eras have
shed new light on Soviet concert life, demonstrating how the music
of the past was used to help mold and deliver cultural policy, how
"undesirable" repertoire was weeded out during the 1920s, and how
Russian and non-Russian composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky,
Wagner, Bach, and Rachmaninov were "canonized" during different,
distinct periods in Stalinist culture. Fairclough's fascinating
study of the ever-shifting Soviet musical-political landscape
identifies 1937 as the start of a cultural Cold War, rather than
occurring post-World War Two, as is often maintained, while
documenting the efforts of musicians and bureaucrats during this
period to keep musical channels open between Russia and the West.
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