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Kiril Tomoff - Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953 - 9780801444111 - V9780801444111
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Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953

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Description for Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953 Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPG; AVH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.

Why did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in the arts, witness such an extraordinary upsurge of musical creativity and the prominence of musicians in the cultural elite? This is one of the questions that Kiril Tomoff seeks to answer in Creative Union, the first book about any of the professional unions that dominated Soviet cultural life at the time. Drawing on hitherto untapped archives, he shows how the Union of Soviet Composers established control over the music profession and negotiated the relationship between composers and the Communist Party leadership. Central ... Read more

Most accounts of Soviet musical life focus on famous individuals or the campaign against Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth and Zhdanov's postwar attack on musical formalism. Tomoff's approach, while not downplaying these notorious events, shows that the Union was able to develop and direct a musical profession that enjoyed enormous social prestige. The Union's leadership was able to use its expertise to determine the criteria of musical value with a degree of independence. Tomoff's book reveals the complex and mutable interaction of creative intelligentsia and political elite in a period hitherto characterized as one of totalitarian control.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444111
SKU
V9780801444111
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Kiril Tomoff
Kiril Tomoff is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition during the Early Cold War, 1945–1958 and Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953, both from Cornell.

Reviews for Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953
Tomoff deftly challenges the mythology of the martyred Soviet artist. His thoroughly researched study explores not only the institutional structures and bureaucratic processes of the Composers' Union but also the personal and professional networks within it that protected members and preserved artistic values. Tomoff ably balances high politics and personal relationships to show how Soviet composers successfully negotiated shifting ideological ... Read more

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