Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953)

Zusatztext This essential book, the second in Titus's ambitious Shostakovich film music trilogy, builds on her highly successful first installment by pressing forward through a crucial time in Soviet history: the late 1930s, World War II, and the postwar period, ending with Stalin's death in 1953. Impressively interdisciplinary, it is packed with intriguing historical, musical, and filmic observations and interpretations. - Peter J. Schmelz, author of Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the late USSR Informationen zum Autor Joan Titus is Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She researches the cultural politics of audiovisual media and has published on the themes of Soviet and Russian film music, indigeneity and transnational identities, and the intersectionality of gender, race, and nationalism in music for screen media. Zusammenfassung Following the first volume on Dmitry Shostakovich's early career and his emergence as the first composer for Soviet Russian cinema, this book examines Shostakovich's continued development as a film composer and his navigation of Stalinist cultural politics from 1936 to 1953.

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Following the first volume on Dmitry Shostakovich's early career and his emergence as the first composer for Soviet Russian cinema, this book examines Shostakovich's continued development as a film composer and his navigation of Stalinist cultural politics from 1936 to 1953.