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Creative union : the professional organization of Soviet composers, 1939-1953 /

"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 answ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tomoff, Kiril
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series:Cornell scholarship online.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The formation of the Composers' Union, 1932-41
  • Administering the creative process
  • Composers on the march, 1941-45
  • Zhdanovshchina and the Ogolevets affair
  • Brouhaha! : party intervention and professional consolidation, 1948
  • Anticosmopolitanism and the music profession, 1949-53
  • The results of party intervention
  • Muzfond, royalties, and popularity
  • Elite hierarchies
  • "Most respected comrade
  • " : informal networks in the Stalinist music world.