Description
Book SynopsisA volume of essential reading and scholarship in Russian music studies that brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews.
Trade Review[A]n engaging and enlightening anthology . . . .64.4 Winter 2005
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One
1. Shostakovich versus Volkov
2. Volkov's Testimony Reconsidered
Part Two
3. A Side-by-Side Comparison of Texts from Testimony with Their Original Sources
4. A Pitiful Fake
5. The Bedbug
6. The Official Dossier
7. Notes from the Soviet Archives on Volkov's Testimony
8. An Episode in the Life of a Book
9. An Answer to Those Who Still Abuse Shostakovich
10. On Solomon Volkov and Testimony
11. The Regime and Vulgarity
12. Shostakovich's World is Our World
13. Shostakovich Remembered
Part Three
14. A Link in the Chain
15. Aperspective on Soviet Musical Culture during the Lifetime of Shostakovich
16. The Latest "New Shostakovich"
17. Dialogues about Shostakovich
Part Four
18. Ian MacDonald's The New Shostakovich
19. Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich
20. A Response to Papers by Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov
21. Whose Shostakovich?
22. The Shostakovich Variations
23. Shostakovich
24. Laurel Fay's Shostakovich
25. When Serious Music Mattered
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
