The new Shostakovich / Ian MacDonald ; revised and updated by Raymond Clarke.
By: MacDonald, Ian [author.]
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Contributor(s): Clarke, Raymond [editor.].
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BookPublisher: London : Pimlico, [2006]Edition: New edition.Description: xxii, 441 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781845950644 (paperback).Subject(s): Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 | Composers -- Soviet Union -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 SHO | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00235978 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Who was Dmitri Shostakovich? The USSR's official figurehead composer and son of the revolution that brought the Soviet state into being, or a secret dissident whose contempt for the totalitarian regime was scathing? Perhaps both?
Since the posthumous publication in 1979 of alleged memoirs by Shostakovich, the controversy about the composer and his music has escalated into the most rancorous debate the world of classical music has ever known. Ian MacDonald's The New Shostakovich presents the case for the dissident view, arguing passionately that the meaning of the composer's music cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he and his fellow artists lived through under Soviet Communism.
A widely read and critically acclaimed book in the 1990s, this new edition has been comprehensively revised, extensively corrected, and updated with much new material. Whichever side of the debate readers support, The New Shostakovich presents them with a viewpoint which cannot be ignored.
Bibliography: (pages 375-431) and indexes.
Innocence 1906-1925 -- Experience 1926-1931 -- Uncertainty 1932-1934 -- Terror 1935-1938 -- Togetherness 1938-1946 -- Isolation 1946-1953 -- Assertion 1953-1975.
Alan Cutts Collection.