A Shostakovich Casebook - Russian Music Studies

"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 BooksA 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.

ISBN:	9780253218230
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Published date:	14 Nov 2005
DEWEY:	780.92
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	408
Weight:	648g
Height:	238mm
Width:	159mm
Spine width:	34mm

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