Title Composing the party line : music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany / David G. Tompkins

Published West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations Series Central European studies Central European studies. Contents The rise and decline of socialist realism in music -- The composers' unions between party aims and professional autonomy -- The struggle over commissions -- The music festival as pedagogical experience -- The concert landscape Summary 880-01 This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions and demands. Based on a deep analysis of the archival and contemporary published sources on state, party, and professional organizations concerned with musical life, Tompkins argues that music, as a significant part of cultural production in these countries, played a key role in instituting and maintaining the regimes of East Central Europe. As part of the Stalinist project to create and control a new socialist identity at the personal as well as collective level, the ruling parties in East Germany and Poland sought to saturate public space through the production of music. Politically effective ideas and symbols were introduced that furthered their attempts to, in the parlance of the day, "engineer the human soul." Music also helped the Communist parties establish legitimacy. Extensive state support for musical life encouraged musical elites and audiences to accept the dominant position and political missions of these regimes. Party leaders invested considerable resources in the attempt to create an authorized musical language that would secure and maintain hegemony over the cultural and wider social worlds. The responses of composers and audiences ran the gamut from enthusiasm to suspicion, but indifference was not an option 880-01/(3/r Examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. A comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to-late 1990s. This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions and demands. Based on a deep analysis of the archival and contemporary published sources on state, party, and professional organizations concerned with musical life, Tompkins argues that music, as a significant part of cultural production in these countries, played a key role in instituting and maintaining the regimes of East Central Europe. As part of the Stalinist project to create and control a new socialist identity at the personal as well as collective level, the ruling parties in East Germany and Poland sought to saturate public space through the production of music. Politically effective ideas and symbols were introduced that furthered their attempts to, in the parlance of the day, "مهَىمَم ْوٰم وفٍ َٱُ.ٌ" حٱىك فٱٌ ُوممٌِل وٰم أٍٍُىَٱ ٰفِىْٰمٱ مٱفٰقىٌٱو مٌهىىٰفٍك". إ٬مٰٱَىم ٱفٰمٰ ٱُِِْٰن ٍُْٱىكف ٌىٌنم مكَُفْهمل ٍٱىكف ٌمىٌمٰٱ فلَ فلىمكَمٱ ُٰفككم ِٰوٰم لىٍُفَ َٰٱُِىىٰ َُفلَ ىٌُِىٰكف ٌىٍٱٱىٱَُ نُ وٰمٱم مْهىمٍٱ. ذف"ْٰ مٌفلمٱْ ىَمٱمٰل كٱَُىلمفْقمٌ مْٱُكْمٱ ى َوٰم فمٰٰ ٍِٰ ُٰكمْفمٰ ف َفوٰىُْ"مل ٍٱىكف ٌفٌهَفهم وٰف ُٰلٌ ٱمكمْ فلَ فٍىفَٰى َومهم"ٍَُ ُم ْوٰم كٌٰفْ ٌفلَ ىلم ْٱكُىف ٌلٌُْٱ. شوم مْٱٱَُِمٱ نُ كٱٍُُِمٱْ فلَ فلىمكَمٱ فْ َوٰم هفٍ ٰن ٍُْموَٰٱىفٱ ٍ ُٰٱٱىِكى،َُ قٰىلَىننممْكَم فٱ َُٰف َىُِٰ.َُ شوىٱ ىٰمٌٰ فٱ فٍلم دمِ َءككمٱٱ ق" ىٌقفْىْمٱ ن ٍُْفُْلَ وٰم لٌُْ وُْٰهو ثَُمٌلهم صفٌَكٰومل.--ذُْىلمل ق" ِقىٌٱوم.ْ Analysis 20th century music history poland political aspects germany (east) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 English Print version record SUBJECT Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919-1920 Paris Polish Delegation gnd Subject Music -- Political aspects -- Poland -- History -- 20th century Music -- Political aspects -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century Music and state -- Poland -- History -- 20th century Music and state -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century Interdisciplinary studies. Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects. Regional studies. HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Music and state Music -- Political aspects Musik Musikleben Politik Germany (East) Poland Deutschland DDR Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781461957157 146195715X 9781612492896 1612492894 9781612492902 1612492908

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