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Sonic Overload - Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR (Hardcover)
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Sonic Overload - Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR (Hardcover)
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Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the
late Soviet Union. It focuses on polystylism in music as a response
to the information overload swamping listeners in the Soviet Union
during its final decades. It traces the ways in which leading
composers Alfred Schnittke and Valentin Silvestrov initially
embraced popular sources before ultimately rejecting them.
Polystylism first responded to the utopian impulses of Soviet
ideology with utopian impulses to encompass all musical styles,
from "high" to "low". But these initial all-embracing aspirations
were soon followed by retreats to alternate utopias founded on
carefully selecting satisfactory borrowings, as familiar
hierarchies of culture, taste, and class reasserted themselves.
Looking at polystylism in the late USSR tells us about past and
present, near and far, as it probes the musical roots of the
overloaded, distracted present.A Based on archival research, oral
historical interviews, and other overlooked primary materials, as
well as close listening and thorough examination of scores and
recordings, Sonic Overload presents a multilayered and
comprehensive portrait of late-Soviet polystylism and cultural
life, and of the music of Silvestrov and Schnittke. Sonic Overload
is intended for musicologists and Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian
specialists in history, the arts, film, and literature, as well as
readers interested in twentieth- and twenty-first century music;
modernism and postmodernism; quotation and collage; the
intersections of "high" and "low" cultures; and politics and the
arts.
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