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

• Yazar: Tompkins, David G. (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: West Lafayette Purdue University Press 2013
• Konular: Regional studies; Music; East Germany; Musicology; Poland; Polish United Workers' Party; Socialist realism; Socialist Unity Party of Germany; Soviet Union
• Online Erişim: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Özet

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.

ISBN

9781557536471

Erişim

Open Access