Composing the party line : music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany
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Author: Tompkins, David G., author
Added by: eric
Added Date: 2014-08-18
Language: eng
Subjects: Politics, Music, Stalinism, Music and state
Publishers: Purdue Univ. Press
Collections: folkscanomy miscellaneous, folkscanomy, additional collections
ISBN Number: 9781557536471, 1557536473, 9781612492902, 9781557537027
Pages Count: 314
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 170.47 MB
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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, “engineer the human soul.” Music also helped the Communist parties establish legitimacy. Extensive state support for musical life encouraged musical elites and audiences to accept the dominant position and political missions of these regimes. Party leaders invested considerable resources in the attempt to create an authorized musical language that would secure and maintain hegemony over the cultural and wider social worlds. The responses of composers and audiences ran the gamut from enthusiasm to suspicion, but indifference was not an option. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index
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
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