Overview
This volume presents recent research into Dmitri Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) and work by leading British, American, Russian, and Israeli scholars. It is occasioned by the ever-growing interest in a composer whose significance in and for the history of twentieth-century music is, as Richard Taruskin has commented, immense, possibly unparalleled and above all, continuing. The authors of the thirteen articles are musicologists, Russian literature specialists, biographers, and cultural historians, whose diverse fields of expertise are reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of the materials collected here. The collection presents Shostakovich and his legacy in a variety of different contexts and its interdisciplinary nature will also serve to open up discussion. In this way, it breaks from previous tendencies to focus on the purely extrinsic qualities of the composers musical oeuvre, which has so often been interpreted in terms of autobiography. The chapters span the composer's entire career and contain substantial amounts of new information about Shostakovich and his musical legacy.
Full Product Details
Author: Rosamund Bartlett (Leverhulme Research Fellow in Russian Cultural History, Leverhulme Research Fellow in Russian Cultural History, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.505kg
ISBN: 9780198166665
ISBN 10: 0198166664
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 13 April 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
this collection makes a very worthwhile contribution to Shostakovich studies, for the brilliance of some of the contributions, for the new information, and for the excellent photographic illustrations SEER
`this collection makes a very worthwhile contribution to Shostakovich studies, for the brilliance of some of the contributions, for the new information, and for the excellent photographic illustrations' SEER, Vol 79, No 3, 2001 `kicks off with a stimulating 'keynote' polemic from the ever -provocative Richard Taruskin' BBC Music Magazine, `a book for serious and infomred researchers and enthusiasts, Shotakovich in Context is a valuable addition to a rapidly expanding literature.' Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone, Oct, 2000.
this collection makes a very worthwhile contribution to Shostakovich studies, for the brilliance of some of the contributions, for the new information, and for the excellent photographic illustrations * SEER *
