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      Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships

      Composing for the State

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      Composing for the State book

      Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships
      Edited ByEsteban Buch, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Manuel Deniz Silva
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 6 July 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573236
      Pages 234
      eBook ISBN 9781315573236
      Subjects Area Studies, Arts
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      Buch, E., Zubillaga, I.C., & Deniz Silva, M. (Eds.). (2016). Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573236

      ABSTRACT

      Under the dictatorships of the twentieth century, music never ceased to sound. Even when they did not impose aesthetic standards, these regimes tended to favour certain kinds of art music such as occasional works for commemorations or celebrations, symphonic poems, cantatas and choral settings. In the same way, composers who were more or less ideologically close to the regime wrote pieces of music on their own initiative, which amounted to a support of the political order.

      This book presents ten studies focusing on music inspired and promoted by regimes such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, France under Vichy, the USSR and its satellites, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Maoist China, and Latin-American dictatorships. By discussing the musical works themselves, whether they were conceived as ways to provide "music for the people", to personally honour the dictator, or to participate in State commemorations of glorious historical events, the book examines the relationship between the composers and the State.

      This important volume, therefore, addresses theoretical issues long neglected by both musicologists and historians: What is the relationship between art music and propaganda? How did composers participate in musical life under the control of an authoritarian State? What was specifically political in the works produced in these contexts? How did audiences react to them? Can we speak confidently about "State music"? In this way, Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth Century Dictatorships is an essential contribution to our understanding of musical cultures of the twentieth century, as well as the symbolic policies of dictatorial regimes.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction: ‘State Music’ and Dictatorship

      part |1 pages

      Part I Music for the People

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Music and the Vichy Regime through Jeune France’s Three Joan-of-Arc Productions (1941)

      chapter 2|19 pages

      The ‘Dança da Terra Issue’ (1943): Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Vargas Dictatorship

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Unravelling The East Is Red (1964): Socialist Music and Politics in the People’s Republic of China

      part |1 pages

      Part II Composing for the Dictator

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Gottfried Müller’s Deutsches Heldenrequiem (1934): Nazi Ideology Cloaked in Historic Style

      chapter 5|13 pages

      Alfredo Casella’s Il deserto tentato (1937): An Opera Dedicated to Benito Mussolini

      chapter 6|25 pages

      A Birthday Present for Stalin: Shostakovich’s Song of the Forests (1949)

      chapter 7|22 pages

      ‘State Music’ in Poland under the Stalinist Regime: Alfred Gradstein’s Cantata A Word about Stalin (1951)

      part |1 pages

      Part III State Commemorations

      chapter 8|24 pages

      Salazar’s Dictatorship and the Paradoxes of State Music: Luís de Freitas Branco’s Ill-Fated Solemn Overture 1640 (1939)

      chapter 9|19 pages

      El Concierto de la Paz (1964): Three Commissions to Celebrate 25 Years of Francoism

      chapter 10|30 pages

      Conquistadores, Indians and Argentine Generals: Iubilum op. 51, a Commission to Alberto Ginastera (1980)

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