Twentieth-Century Music and Politics

Contents: Foreword, Robin Milner-Gulland; Preface; Introduction, Pauline Fairclough; 'A world of Marxist orthodoxy'? Alan Bush's Wat Tyler in Great Britain and the German Democratic Republic, Joanna Bullivant; Stravinsky's Petrushka: modernizing the past, Russianizing the future, or, how Stravinsky learned to be an exile, Jonathan Cross; Detente to Cold War: Anglo-Soviet musical exchanges in the late Stalin period, Pauline Fairclough; Front theatre, musical films and the war in Nazi cinema, Guido Heldt; 'Those damn foreigners': xenophobia and British musical life during the first half of the 20th century, Erik Levi; 'An angry ape': some preliminary thoughts about Orango, Gerard McBurney; A bridge between two worlds: the founding years of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Bogumila Mika; Winning hearts and minds? Soviet music in the Cold War struggle against the West, Simo Mikkonen; Preserving the faA?ade of normal times: musical life in Belgrade under the German occupation (1941-44), Melita Milin; Musical commemorations in post-Civil War Spain: Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto Heroico, Eva Moreda Rodriguez; The radicalization and ghettoization of music in the General Government, Katarzyna Naliwajek; 'I only need the good old Budapest': Hungarian cabaret in wartime London, Florian Scheding; Irish nationalism, British imperialism, and the role of popular music, Derek B. Scott; Shostakovich as film music theorist, Joan Titus; Diaspora, music, and politics: Russian musical life in Shanghai during the inter-war period, Hon-Lun Yang; Select bibliography; Index.