A Shostakovich Casebook

A Shostakovich Casebook
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780253218230
ISBN-13 : 0253218233
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Book Synopsis A Shostakovich Casebook by : Malcolm Hamrick Brown

Download or read book A Shostakovich Casebook written by Malcolm Hamrick Brown and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book . . . includes . . . valuable essays and interviews, which move beyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich's life under a totalitarian regime. . . . The 'Casebook' contributors compellingly warn of replacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simple inversion." —New York Times ". . . an important and readable collection. . . . It presents a devastating critique of Volkov's claims and scholarly practices in Testimony." —New York Review of Books A Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews—many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union—to create a volume of essential reading and cutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include Malcolm H. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.


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