Composing the party line : music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany / David G. Tompkins

Examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. A comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stali...

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Main Authors:Tompkins, David G. (Author)
Format: Online-Resource
Language:English
Published:West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue Univ. Press, 2013
Series:Knowledge unlatched pilot collection
Central European studies series
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The rise and decline of socialist realism in music
The composers' unions between party aims and professional autonomy
The struggle over commissions
The music festival as pedagogical experience
The concert landscape.