A Shostakovich Casebook
Author | : Malcolm Hamrick Brown |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2005-08-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780253218230 |
ISBN-13 | : 0253218233 |
Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "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 Books A 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.