Russian Music at Home and Abroad - New Essays

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-28808-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post–Cold War, and now post–9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions, before turning to individual cases from the nineteenth century to the present. Much of the volume is devoted to the resolutely cosmopolitan but inveterately Russian Igor Stravinsky, one of the major forces in the music of the twentieth century and subject of particular interest to composers and music theorists all over the world. Taruskin here revisits him for the first time since the 1990s, when everything changed for Russia and its cultural products. Other essays are devoted to the cultural and social policies of the Soviet Union and their effect on the music produced there as those policies swung away from Communist internationalism to traditional Russian nationalism; to the musicians of the Russian postrevolutionary diaspora; and to the tension between the compelling artistic quality of works such as Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps or Prokofieff’s Zdravitsa and the antihumanistic or totalitarian messages they convey. Russian Music at Home and Abroad addresses these concerns in a personal and critical way, characteristically demonstrating Taruskin’s authority and ability to bring living history out of the shadows.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taruskin, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: My Wonderful World; or, Dismembering the Triad

PART ONE: NOT BY MIND?
1. Non-Nationalists, and Other Nationalists
2. Revenants
3. Crowd, Mob, and Nation in Boris Godunov: What Did Musorgsky Think, and Does It Matter?
4. Catching Up with Rimsky-Korsakov
5. Not Modern and Loving It
6. Written for Elephants: Notes on Rach 3
7. Is There a “Russia Abroad” in Music?
8. Turania Revisited, with Lourié My Guide
9. The Ghetto and the Imperium
10. Two Serendipities: Keynoting a Conference, “Music and Power”
11. What’s an Awful Song Like You Doing in a Nice Piece Like This? The Finale in Prokofieff’s Symphony-Concerto, Op. 125
12. The Birth of Contemporary Russia out of the Spirit of Music (Not)

PART TWO: REVISITING STRAVINSKY

13. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky?
14. How The Rite Became Possible
15. Diaghilev without Stravinsky? Stravinsky without Diaghilev?
16. Resisting The Rite
17. Stravinsky’s Poetics and Russian Music
18. Did He Mean It?
19. In Stravinsky’s Songs, the True Man, No Ghostwriters
20. “Un Cadeau Très Macabre”

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Taruskin is the Class of 1955 Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1987 to 2014, after twenty-six years at Columbia University (man and boy). He is the author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, On Russian Music, Defining Russia Musically, and the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music.