Russian music at home and abroad
Subtitle: new essays
By: Richard Taruskin
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780520288089; 9780520288096
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Music
Description: Musicologist Richard Taruskin casts a penetrating eye on contemporary Russia, revealing a music that has emerged from the margins of musicology to become a site of noisy contention in our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world.
Notes: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. My wonderful world; or, Dismembering the triad; title: Not by mind? Non-nationalists and other nationalists; title: Revenants; title: Crowd, mob, and nation in Boris Godunov : What did Musorgsky think, and does it matter?; title: Catching up with Rimsky-Korsakov; title: Not modern and loving it; title: Written for elephants : notes on Rach 3; title: Is there a "Russia abroad" in music?; title: Turania revisited, with Lourié my guide; title: The ghetto and the imperium; title: Two serendipities : keynoting a conference, "Music and power"; title: What's an awful song like you doing in a nice piece like this? The finale in Prokofieff's Symphony-concerto, op. 125; title: The birth of contemporary Russia out of the spirit of music (not); title: Revisiting Stravinsky. Just how Russian was Stravinsky?; title: How the Rite became possible; title: Diaghilev without Stravinsky? Stravinsky without Diaghilev?; title: Resisting the Rite; title: Stravinsky's Poetics and Russian music; title: Did he mean it?; title: In Stravinsky's songs, the true man, no ghostwriters; title: "Un cadeau très macabre."