Creative Union : : The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953 /

Creative Union : : The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953 / / Kiril Tomoff.

Why did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in the arts, witness such an extraordinary upsurge of musical creativity and the prominence of musicians in the cultural elite? This is one of the questions that Kiril Tomoff seeks to answer in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Tomoff, Kiril,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 12 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Professional Organization Of Soviet Composers
  • 1. The Formation Of The Composers' Union, 1932-41
  • 2. Administering The Creative Process
  • 3. Composers On The March, 1941-45
  • Part II: Profession And Power, 1946-53
  • 4. Zhdanovshchina And The Ogolevets Affair
  • 5. Brouhaha! Party Intervention And Professional Consolidation, 1948
  • 6. Anticosmopolitanism And The Music Profession, 1949-53
  • 7. The Results Of Party Intervention
  • Part III: Professionals And The Stalinist Cultural Elite
  • 8. Muzfond, Royalties, And Popularity
  • 9. Elite Hierarchies
  • 10. "Most Respected Comrade...": Informal Networks In The Stalinist Music World
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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