Russian Music Since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 106294
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5871/bacad/9780197266151.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press / British Academy
- ISBN
- 9780197266151
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266151.001.0001
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This is a 450 page edited volume to which Zuk has contributed significantly.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Russian Music Since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery represents the first attempt to appraise developments in scholarship on Russian-Soviet music and musical life since glasnost, both in Russia itself and outside it. The constituent essays explore historiographical issues and research questions that have emerged as being of central importance—such as the validity of the ‘top-down’ models of Soviet cultural construction that were prevalent during the Cold War era. The volume is unusual in the effort made to represent the work of leading Russian specialists, few of whose writings are available in English. Zuk translated eight of the seventeen contributions—seven from Russian and one from German. He also contributed an essay of his own (a critical account of post-glasnost scholarship in the West, dealing principally with writings in English, French, and German) and wrote the Introduction to the volume. In addition to explaining the volume’s rationale and principal thematic foci, the Introduction describes the origins and development of Russian music studies at home and abroad. It contextualises current scholarly endeavours in relation to the broader field of Russian cultural studies, indicating the principal intellectual commonalities, and examines the far-reaching changes in emphasis and approach since the break-up of the USSR. The limitations of pre-glasnost scholarship are discussed and their causes (in the USSR—censorship and ideological constraints; in the West—difficulty of access to primary sources and a tendency to approach the subject from tendentious perspectives influenced by the climate of the Cold War), and an attempt is made to suggest potentially fruitful areas for further enquiry from revisionist perspectives.
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- Non-English
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