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]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.