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Author Gillies, Richard Louis

Title Singing Soviet Stagnation
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (239 p.)
Series Routledge Russian and East European Music and Culture Ser
Routledge Russian and East European Music and Culture Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- 1 Howling Wolves: Song, Voice, and Identity in the Soviet Union -- Periodising Soviet History -- Transformation -- Consolidation -- Inclusion -- Learning to Howl: Theory and Methodology -- Voices and Identities: Composers of Russia's 'Bronze Age' -- Summary -- Notes -- 2 Stepping Over the Threshold: Dmitri Shostakovich's Seven Poems of Aleksandr Blok -- Introduction to an Ending
Intersections of Svoy, Vnye, and Artistic Utterance -- The Blok Cycle -- Nos. 1-4: Thesis and Antithesis -- Nos. 5, 6, and 7: Synthesis -- Transcendence and Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 The Soviet Betrayal of Rus' Georgy Sviridov's Russia Cast Adrift -- Soviet Arrière-Gardism -- Defining 'Nationalism' in the Soviet Context -- State 'Inclusion' of Nationalist Ideology, 1953-1982 -- Russia Cast Adrift -- Nos. 1 and 3: the Pastoral-Religious -- Nos. 4 and 5: the Forking Paths -- Nos. 6, 7, and 9: the Betrayal -- Nos. 8, 11, and 12: the Resurrection and the Glory
Sviridov's 'Great Retreat' From the Present? -- Notes -- 4 Eschatological Tenderness: Valentin Silvestrov's Stupeni -- Birth of the Object -- Faith in the Time of Cruel Miracles: Social-cultural Context -- Stupeni: the Beginning of Absolute Dying -- 'Dedication' -- 'Elegy' -- 'What Are You For, Days?' -- 'To Sleep' -- 'Last Love' & 'I Have Forgotten the Word I Wanted to Say' -- Loss of Form By the Object -- Notes -- 5 Echoes and Repercussions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Music and literature -- Soviet Union
Music and state -- Soviet Union
Songs -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
Music and literature
Music and state
Songs
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000483055
1000483053