Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197698051ISBN-10:197698050UPC:9780197698051Book Category:Performing Arts, MusicBook Subcategory:Dance, Genres & Styles, Individual Composer & MusicianBook Topic:History & Criticism, BalletSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCJNN97XYQ
Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance
The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of openness and experimentation in the arts and especially in dance. During this period in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich composed three ballets--The Golden Age, The Bolt, and The Limpid Stream--at a time when he was consolidating his position as Soviet Russia's preeminent young...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197698051ISBN-10:197698050UPC:9780197698051Book Category:Performing Arts, MusicBook Subcategory:Dance, Genres & Styles, Individual Composer & MusicianBook Topic:History & Criticism, BalletSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCJNN97XYQ
Laura E. Kennedy is a scholar of Russian music and ballet and a specialist on Dmitri Shostakovich. She has travelled and researched extensively in Russia. With a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Michigan, she has held the Charles Ezra Daniel Associate Professorship at Furman University and is currently Head of Music at Blanchelande College. She lives in Great Britain.
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