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Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin

Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin

Frolova-Walker, Marina

Paperback

Classical MusicGeneral MusicWorld Music

ISBN10: 0300246455
ISBN13: 9780300246452
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Dec 14 2007
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music - its ineffable 'Russianness' - Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera 'A Life for the Tsar' in 1836 to the death of Stalin in 1953, the years in which musical nationalism was encouraged and endorsed by the Russian state and its Soviet successor. The author identifies the two central myths that dominated Russian culture during this period - that art revealed the Russian soul, and that this nationalist artistic tradition was founded by Glinka and Pushkin. She shows how nationalist ideas were endlessly recycled and elaborated in the writings of composers, critics and historians of music, even when supporting evidence was scant or non-existent.

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