Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned
- Author: Dubinets, Elena
This book is far more than an ethnography of the Russian musical diaspora: it investigates the stages of emigration of Russian composers as manifested in the music they actually composed. The...
Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned
- Author: Dubinets, Elena
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This book is far more than an ethnography of the Russian musical diaspora: it investigates the stages of emigration of Russian composers as manifested in the music they actually composed. The...
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As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes.
Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elucidating sociological perspectives of the post-Soviet world that have caused changes in composers' outlooks, strategies, and rankings.
Russian Composers Abroad is an illuminating study of creative ideas that are often shaped by the exigencies of financing and advancement rather than just by the vision of the creators and the demands of the public.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I: National versus Global
- 1. The "Universal": Globalizing the Local
- 2. The National: Super-Icons
- 3. National Identification versus Cultural Affiliation: Non-Russian Composers
- 4. Cultural Affiliation versus Citizenship: Russian Diaspora
- Part II: How to: Perspectives of Music Creation
- 5. The "Social" Perspective
- 6. The "Production" Perspective
- Part III: How they left
- 7. A Brief History of Russian Diaspora Through Music
- 8. "Kolbasa Emigration": a New Cultural Mythology?
- Part IV: How they stayed
- 9. The Trauma of Migration
- 10. The Many Professions
- 11. Supporters and Connectors
- Part V: How they returned
- 12. Homecoming and Reception at Home
- 13. Russia under Putin: to stay or to go?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Awards and reviews
This book is far more than an ethnography of the Russian musical diaspora: it investigates the stages of emigration of Russian composers as manifested in the music they actually composed. The wide range of composers and compositions examined makes this volume an excellent addition to the shelf that includes more general histories of 20th- and 21st-century Russian music, such as work by Malcolm Brown and Richard Taruskin. . . . Highly recommended. -- W. E. Grim, Strayer University
