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Modernism, socialist realism, and identity in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich, 1929--1932.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernism, socialist realism, and identity in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich, 1929--1932./
Author:	Titus, Joan M.
Description:	494 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Margarita Mazo.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-11A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3241683
ISBN:	9780542960994

Modernism, socialist realism, and identity in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich, 1929--1932.
Titus, Joan M.

Modernism, socialist realism, and identity in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich, 1929--1932. - 494 p.

Adviser: Margarita Mazo.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2006.

Since the publication of Testimony (1979), a book that portrayed the thoroughly politicized Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich (1906--1975) as a closet dissident, interpretations of his political status have become intertwined with interpretations of his music. Shostakovich has been labeled a "high-art" symphonist, a "light" music composer, a dissident, and a Communist. His eclecticism and the changing political environment in which he lived are in part responsible for these controversial interpretations of his music and character. Recent scholars have challenged the assumed historical narrative that perpetuates these politicized interpretations: the narrative that describes modernist and experimental composers of the 1920s as tragically having been converted to conservative and propagandistic socialist realist trend of the 1930s. My work seeks to continue the recent reevaluation of the modernist/socialist realist narrative, focusing on Shostakovich's early film music. By analyzing of his early film scores and discussing their reception, I reveal the aesthetic and political motivations for his negotiation of modernism and socialist realism. In so doing, I redefine Shostakovich as a more nuanced and heterogeneous composer of both film and art music.

ISBN: 9780542960994Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

Modernism, socialist realism, and identity in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich, 1929--1932.
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