Composing the party line : : music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany / / David G. Tompkins.

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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Superior document:Central European studies series
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Place / Publishing House:West Lafayette, Indiana : : Purdue University Press,, [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Central European studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (313 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.