A Shostakovich Casebook

Book Overview

"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

". . . an important and readable collection. . . . It presents a devastating critique of Volkov's claims and scholarly practices in Testimony." --New York Review of Books

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253218233
• ISBN13: 9780253218230
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher