Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964-1985

ISBN-13: 9781032137421 / Miękka / 2023 / 216 str.

Richard Louis Gillies

Opis

Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be detected in selected musical-literary works of what has become known as the ‘Stagnation’ era (1964–1985).

Spis treści

1 HOWLING WOLVES: Voice, Song, and Identity in the Soviet Union; 2 STEPPING OVER THE THRESHOLD: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seven Poems of Aleksandr Blok; 3 THE SOVIET BETRAYAL OF RUS′: Georgy Sviridov’s Russia Cast Adrift; 4 ESCHATOLOGICAL TENDERNESS: Valentin Silvestrov’s Stupeni; 5 ECHOES AND REPERCUSSIONS: Conclusion

O autorze

Richard Louis Gillies is a lecturer and scholar specialising in the music, poetry, and cultural practices of Russia and the Soviet Union during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.