Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138248363 ISBN 13: 9781138248366

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.

About this title

About the Author:

Pauline Fairclough is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol. She has published widely on Shostakovich and Soviet music, and is currently writing her monograph on early Soviet musical culture, Classics for the Masses.

Review:

'In general terms, this is a volume that will be greeted enthusiastically by a wide range of scholars and which will have resonance for historians and sociologists as well as musicologists.'Jan Smaczny, Queen's University Belfast, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138248363
• ISBN 13: 9781138248366
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Fairclough Pauline