Composing the Party Line
Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
Author(s)
Tompkins, David G.
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
103427Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Music; East Germany; Musicology; Poland; Polish United Workers' Party; Socialist realism; Socialist Unity Party of Germany; Soviet UnionISBN
9781557536471OCN
922994949Publisher
Purdue University PressPublisher website
http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/Publication date and place
West Lafayette, 2013-09-01Classification
Regional / International studies