Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany.

Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany.

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 Stali...

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Main Author: Tompkins, David G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ashland : Purdue University Press, 2013
Series:Central European studies.
Subjects:
Music > History > Political aspects > Poland > 20th century.
Music > History > Political aspects > Germany (East) > 20th century.
Music and state > Poland > History > 20th century.
Music and state > Germany (East) > History > 20th century.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Realism in Music
  • Chapter Two: The Composersâ€? Unions between Party Aims and Professional Autonomy
  • Chapter Three: The Struggle over Commissions
  • Chapter Four: The Music Festival as Pedagogical Experience
  • Chapter Five: The Concert Landscape
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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