Marina Frolova-Walker, Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics
Although the title and the cover of Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics might suggest otherwise, make no mistake: this is not a book about Stalin. Although he remains an obsession in popular literature on Soviet music, scholars mostly use Stalin as a marketing gimmick. Yet, the cover...
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Transposition
2018
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Although the title and the cover of Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics might suggest otherwise, make no mistake: this is not a book about Stalin. Although he remains an obsession in popular literature on Soviet music, scholars mostly use Stalin as a marketing gimmick. Yet, the cover featuring Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid’s painting The Origins of Socialist Realism, combining Dadaist art with socialist realism, was not chosen haphazardly. Even if one of Marina Frolova-Wal... |
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