Composing for the state : music in twentieth-century dictatorships - UK : Ashgate , 2016 . - x, 224 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. - Musical cultures of the twentieth century .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index.

Music and the Vichy Regine through Jeune France's Three Joan-of-Arc productions (1941) / Yannick Simon -- The "Danðca da Terra Issue" (1943) : Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Vargas dictatorship / Analia Chernavsky -- Unravelling "The east is red" (1964) : Socialist music and politics in the People's Republic of China / Hon-Lun Yang -- Gottfried Mèuller's "Deutsches Heldenrequiem" (1934) : Nazi ideology cloaked in historic style / Katherine L. FitzGibbon -- Alfredo Casella's "Il deserto tentato" (1937) : an opera dedicated to Benito Mussolini / Justine Comtois -- A birthday present for Stalin : Shostakovich's "Song of the forests" (1949) / Marina Frolova-Walker -- "State music" in poland under the Stalinist Regime : Alfred Gradstein's cantata "A word about Stalin" (1951) / Andrzej Tuchowski -- Salazar's dictatorship and the paradoxes of state music : Luis de Freitas Branco's Ill-Fated "Solemn Overture 1640" (1939) / Manuel Deniz Silva -- "El concierto de la Paz" (1964) : three commissions to celebrate 25 years of Francoism / Igor Contreras Zubillaga -- "Conquistadores", Indians and Argentine generals : "Iubilum" op.51. a commission to Alberto Ginastera (1980) / Esteban Buch.

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Music--Political aspects--History--20th century.
Music and state.
Dictators.

ML3916 / .C647 2016

781.599

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