Composing the party line : music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany / David G. Tompkins.
Publication
West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2013.
LOCATION
CALL NO.
STATUS
Rathmines Lending
780.943 TOM
AVAILABLE
ISBN
9781557536471 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1557536473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series
Central European studies series
Bibliog.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index.
Contents
The rise and decline of socialist realism in music -- The composers' unions between party aims and professional autonomy -- The struggle over commissions -- The music festival as pedagogical experience -- The concert landscape.
Summary
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 the World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s.
