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Authors

  • Richard Taruskin University of California, Berkeley Author

Keywords:

sociocultural musicology, holistic analysis, Marxist musicology, Socialist Realist historiography, Boris Asafiev, Alexey Finagin, Georgiy Khubov, Tatyana Bukina, Tamara Livanova, Lev Mazel, Valentina Konen, Yuri Kholopov

Abstract

The development of academic musicology in Soviet Russia is traced with reference to debates between music historians and music theorists, and between “sociocultural” studies and internalist perspectives, with an eye toward parallels with similar debates among “Western” scholars. 

Author Biography

  • Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley

    Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley) is an American musicologist, the author of The Oxford History of Western Music in 6 volumes (2005, 2009), Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1996), Defining Russia Musically (1997) and other books on Russian music, as well as on early music and performance, contemporary music culture, nationalism, modernism, and analyses. He is a recipient of Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (Music, 2017) and several American prizes and awards for contribution to musicology. 

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Published

2024-01-07

Issue

Vol. 16 (2019)

Section

Articles