TY - BOOK AU - Tompkins, David G. AB - 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. ID - OAPEN ID: 649954 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 922994949 KW - Music KW - East Germany KW - Musicology KW - Poland KW - Polish United Workers' Party KW - Socialist realism KW - Socialist Unity Party of Germany KW - Soviet Union L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0d347ce6-ffb7-46fc-bb5d-4c399ff7f48d/649954.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30146 PB - Purdue University Press PP - West Lafayette PY - 2013-09-01 SN - 9781557536471 TI - Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany ER -