Music and power in the Soviet 1930s
Subtitle: a history of composers' bureaucracy
By: Simo Mikkonen ; with a foreword by Pauline Fairclough.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780773448353
Subjects: Music and state -- Soviet Union; Music -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union; Music -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism; Soviet Union -- Cultural policy -- History; Socialism and music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between art, ideology and politics; title: Evaluating the past and planning the future. Turning point : 1932? ; Advent of the new environment ; Music and the party : an open marriage?; title: Reshaping the Soviet musical stage. Musical structures and administrators ; Search for welfare ; Striving for professional control; title: Ideology meets music. Connecting music with socialism ; Musicology resolves everything ; Searching for socialist realism; title: The political turmoil : beyond 1936. The concentration : New era, new structures? ; The confrontation : committee vs. Composers' Union ; The conclusion : how composers learned to navigate; title: Final word.