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- Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Purdue University Press
- Series: Central European Studies
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. A comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to-late 1990s. This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin’s death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s.
Table of Contents
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- Title, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- 3 The Struggle over Commissions
- pp. 131-166
- 5 The Concert Landscape
- pp. 197-246
- Conclusion
- pp. 247-252
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-286
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612492902
Related ISBN(s)
9781557536471, 9781557537027, 9781612492896
MARC Record
OCLC
1111384832
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-21
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC