Soviet music and society under Lenin and Stalin
Subtitle: the baton and sickle
By: edited by Neil Edmunds
Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies -- 9; BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies -- 9.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415546201
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Music and state
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

"Transferred to digital printing 2009"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Music in the socialist state  -- Anna Ferenc; title: The ways of Russian popular music to 1953  -- Richard Stites; title: Declared dead, but only provisionally : Shostakovich, Soviet music-hall and Uslovno ubityi  -- Gerard McBurney; title: From the factory to the flat : thirty years of the Song of the counterplan  -- John Riley; title: Prokofiev's Le pas d'acier : how the steel was tempered  -- Lesley-Anne Sayers and Simon Morrison; title: 'Lenin is always with us' : Soviet musical propaganda and its composers during the 1920s  -- Neil Edmunds; title: Amateurs and enthusiasts : folk music and the Soviet state on stage in the 1930s  -- Robin Lapasha; title: National identity, cultural policy and the Soviet Folk Ensemble in Armenia  -- Andy Nercessian; title: Going beyond the border : national cultural policy and the development of musical life in Soviet Karelia, 1920-1940  -- Pekka Suutari; title: A nation on stage : music and the 1936 Festival of Kazak Arts  -- Michael Rouland; title: Uzeyir Hajibeyov and his role in the development of musical life in Azerbaidzhan -- Matthew O'Brien.