Review 2: "Composing the party line. Music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany" / David G. Tompkins. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2013. ISBN 1557536473 (2022)
- The history of music-making in postwar East-Central Europe has lent itself all too readily to clichés. The music, the stereotypes go, was worthless propaganda; the composers were cowed, and the whole region marched in lockstep to the beat of Moscow's drum. Scholars working in the fields of musicology and cultural history have started to add much-needed nuance to this oversimplified picture. David Tompkins is one of them. The product of extensive, painstaking archival research, Composing the Party Line traces the encounter of music and politics in Poland and East Germany during the early Cold War, a period Tompkins defines as lasting from 1945 until approximately 1957. Along the way, Tompkins challenges outmoded ways of thinking about the intersection of cultural production and political power in the formerly socialist societies of East-Central Europe.
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| Author: | Lisa Jakelski |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12412 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.11584/opus4-1241 |
| Editor: | Dorothea Traupe |
| Document Type: | Recension |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/05/31 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2015/05/11 |
| Publishing Institution: | Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt |
| Creating Corporation: | Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org) |
| Release Date: | 2022/06/15 |
| Version: | Draft |
| Institutes: | Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien |
| Licence (German): |  Keine Lizenz - es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht |
