The Resource Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
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- Summary
- Examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. A comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to-late 1990s. This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions and demands. Based on a deep analysis of the archival and contemporary published sources on state, party, and professional organizations concerned with musical life, Tompkins argues that music, as a significant part of cultural production in these countries, played a key role in instituting and maintaining the regimes of East Central Europe. As part of the Stalinist project to create and control a new socialist identity at the personal as well as collective level, the ruling parties in East Germany and Poland sought to saturate public space through the production of music. Politically effective ideas and symbols were introduced that furthered their attempts to, in the parlance of the day, engineer the human soul.<br /><br />Music also helped the Communist parties establish legitimacy. Extensive state support for musical life encouraged musical elites and audiences to accept the dominant position and political missions of these regimes. Party leaders invested considerable resources in the attempt to create an authorized musical language that would secure and maintain hegemony over the cultural and wider social worlds. The responses of composers and audiences ran the gamut from enthusiasm to suspicion, but indifference was not an option. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Realism in Music
- Chapter Two: The Composers� Unions between Party Aims and Professional Autonomy
- Chapter Three: The Struggle over Commissions
- Chapter Four: The Music Festival as Pedagogical Experience
- Chapter Five: The Concert Landscape
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781557536471
- Label
- Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
- Title
- Composing the Party Line
- Title remainder
- Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
- Subject
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- 1900-1999
- Electronic books
- Germany (East)
- History
- MUSIC -- General
- Music -- History | Political aspects -- Germany (East) -- 20th century
- Music -- History | Political aspects -- Poland -- 20th century
- Music -- Political aspects
- Music and state
- Music and state -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century
- Music and state -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
- Poland
- Regional studies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. A comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to-late 1990s. This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions and demands. Based on a deep analysis of the archival and contemporary published sources on state, party, and professional organizations concerned with musical life, Tompkins argues that music, as a significant part of cultural production in these countries, played a key role in instituting and maintaining the regimes of East Central Europe. As part of the Stalinist project to create and control a new socialist identity at the personal as well as collective level, the ruling parties in East Germany and Poland sought to saturate public space through the production of music. Politically effective ideas and symbols were introduced that furthered their attempts to, in the parlance of the day, engineer the human soul.<br /><br />Music also helped the Communist parties establish legitimacy. Extensive state support for musical life encouraged musical elites and audiences to accept the dominant position and political missions of these regimes. Party leaders invested considerable resources in the attempt to create an authorized musical language that would secure and maintain hegemony over the cultural and wider social worlds. The responses of composers and audiences ran the gamut from enthusiasm to suspicion, but indifference was not an option. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tompkins, David G
- Dewey number
- 780.94310904
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- ML3916 -- T67 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Central European studies series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Music
- Music
- Music and state
- Music and state
- MUSIC
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Regional studies
- Music and state
- Music
- Germany (East)
- Poland
- Label
- Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index
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- online resource
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- Contents
- Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Realism in Music -- Chapter Two: The Composers� Unions between Party Aims and Professional Autonomy -- Chapter Three: The Struggle over Commissions -- Chapter Four: The Music Festival as Pedagogical Experience -- Chapter Five: The Concert Landscape -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 922994949
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781557536471
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)922994949
- Label
- Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Realism in Music -- Chapter Two: The Composers� Unions between Party Aims and Professional Autonomy -- Chapter Three: The Struggle over Commissions -- Chapter Four: The Music Festival as Pedagogical Experience -- Chapter Five: The Concert Landscape -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 922994949
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781557536471
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)922994949
Subject
- 1900-1999
- Electronic books
- Germany (East)
- History
- MUSIC -- General
- Music -- History | Political aspects -- Germany (East) -- 20th century
- Music -- History | Political aspects -- Poland -- 20th century
- Music -- Political aspects
- Music and state
- Music and state -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century
- Music and state -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
- Poland
- Regional studies
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