A Shostakovich Casebook - (Russian Music Studies) by Malcolm Hamrick Brown (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The book . . . includes . . . valuable essays and interviews, which move beyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich's 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 </p><p>. . . an important and readable collection. . . . It presents a devastating critique of Volkov's claims and scholarly practices in Testimony. --New York Review of Books</p><p>A 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[A]n engaging and enlightening anthology . . . .64.4 Winter 2005</p>-- "SLAVIC REVIEW"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Malcolm Hamrick Brown, a world-renowned authority on Russian and Soviet music, is the founding editor of the Russian Music Studies series at Indiana University Press.</p>
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