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…
This book presents the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953. It explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds,…
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…
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from …
At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. In 'Sounds of the New Deal', Peter Gough explores how the FMP's activities in the Wes…
At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. In 'Sounds of the New Deal', Peter Gough explores how the FMP's activities in the Wes…
Allied re-education, 1945-1949. Music and regeneration ; Denazification ; Anti-fascism and music ; 'cultural freedom' or 'contemporary realism'? -- New musical cultures, 1949-1955. Bach 'shenanigans' ; Music and state in Germany : 1950-1955 ; Dance music : the enemy within? ; Co…
There is an assumption that two separate musical cultures emerged in East and West alongside the division of Germany into two states. This book challenges these assumptions, asking how and why music was controlled in Germany under Allied Occupation from 1945-1949, and in the ear…
