A Shostakovich Casebook (Russian Music Studies) by Brown, Malcolm Hamrick

The book... includes... valuable essays and interviews, which move beyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovichs life under a totalitarian regime.... The Casebook contributors compellingly warn of replacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simple inversion. -- New York Times... an important and readable collection.... It presents a devastating critique of Volkovs claims and scholarly practices in Testimony. -- New York Review of BooksA Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews -- many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union -- to create a volume of essential reading and cutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include Malcolm H. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.

Author: Brown, Malcolm Hamrick

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 424

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Publication Date: 2005-07-27