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

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 Worl...

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Main Author: Tompkins, David G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2013]
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880 |6 520-01/(3/r  |a 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. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions and demands. Based on a deep analysis of the archival and contemporary published sources on state, party, and professional organizations concerned with musical life, Tompkins argues that music, as a significant part of cultural production in these countries, played a key role in instituting and maintaining the regimes of East Central Europe. As part of the Stalinist project to create and control a new socialist identity at the personal as well as collective level, the ruling parties in East Germany and Poland sought to saturate public space through the production of music. Politically effective ideas and symbols were introduced that furthered their attempts to, in the parlance of the day, "مهَىمَم ْوٰم وفٍ َٱُ.ٌ" حٱىك فٱٌ ُوممٌِل وٰم أٍٍُىَٱ ٰفِىْٰمٱ مٱفٰقىٌٱو مٌهىىٰفٍك". إ٬مٰٱَىم ٱفٰمٰ ٱُِِْٰن ٍُْٱىكف ٌىٌنم مكَُفْهمل ٍٱىكف ٌمىٌمٰٱ فلَ فلىمكَمٱ ُٰفككم ِٰوٰم لىٍُفَ َٰٱُِىىٰ َُفلَ ىٌُِىٰكف ٌىٍٱٱىٱَُ نُ وٰمٱم مْهىمٍٱ. ذف"ْٰ مٌفلمٱْ ىَمٱمٰل كٱَُىلمفْقمٌ مْٱُكْمٱ ى َوٰم فمٰٰ ٍِٰ ُٰكمْفمٰ ف َفوٰىُْ"مل ٍٱىكف ٌفٌهَفهم وٰف ُٰلٌ ٱمكمْ فلَ فٍىفَٰى َومهم"ٍَُ ُم ْوٰم كٌٰفْ ٌفلَ ىلم ْٱكُىف ٌلٌُْٱ. شوم مْٱٱَُِمٱ نُ كٱٍُُِمٱْ فلَ فلىمكَمٱ فْ َوٰم هفٍ ٰن ٍُْموَٰٱىفٱ ٍ ُٰٱٱىِكى،َُ قٰىلَىننممْكَم فٱ َُٰف َىُِٰ.َُ شوىٱ ىٰمٌٰ فٱ فٍلم دمِ َءككمٱٱ ق" ىٌقفْىْمٱ ن ٍُْفُْلَ وٰم لٌُْ وُْٰهو ثَُمٌلهم صفٌَكٰومل.--ذُْىلمل ق" ِقىٌٱوم.ْ 
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