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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552755203321

Autore

Schwarz Boris <1906-1983, >

Titolo

Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia : Enlarged Edition, 1917–1981 / / Boris Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indiana University Press, 1983

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2021

Edizione

[Enlarged edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 EPUB unpgaed)

Disciplina

780/.947

Soggetti

Music - Soviet Union - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

According to Stalin, Soviet music was to be "an art national in form and socialist in content." The degree to which this dictum has been followed in modern Russian music is scrupulously recorded in the enlarged edition of Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia. It contains Boris Schwarz' frank commentary on Soviet music, composers, concerts, competitions, and musical conditions in the Soviet Union. But the book as a whole is more than a musical history. It encompasses the growth of Soviet cultural life—not only composition and performance, but also ballet and opera, educational institutions and curricula, books and journals on music, and musical "politics."