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3 - Behind the Iron Curtain: Female Composers in the Soviet Bloc

from Part I - The Classical Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Elaine Kelly
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Summary

Chapter 3, ‘Behind the Iron Curtain: Female Composers in the Soviet Bloc’, turns to the specific situation of women composers working within the Soviet Bloc, where despite the public advocation of gender equality by state-socialist regimes, more traditional constructs of gender difference actually tended to be propagated. With a particular focus on the careers of Galina Ustvolskaya and Sofia Gubaidulina in the USSR, Ruth Zechlin in the GDR, and Grażyna Bacewicz in Poland, Elaine Kelly probes the possibilities open to female composers working under state socialism.

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Soviet BlocUSSRGDRPolandstate-socialist regimessocialist realismGalina UstvolskayaSofia GubaidulinaRuth ZechlinGrażyna Bacewicz
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 33 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Lukomsky, Vera. ‘“The Eucharist in My Fantasy”: Interview with Sofia Gubaidulina.’ Tempo, vol. 206 (1998), 29–35.Google Scholar
Lukomsky, Vera. ‘“Hearing the Subconscious”: Interview with Sofia Gubaidulina.’ Tempo, vol. 209 (1999), 27–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Morrison, Simon. ‘Galina Ustvolskaya Outside, Inside, and Beyond Music History.’ Journal of Musicology, vol. 36 (2019), 96–129.Google Scholar
Noeske, Nina. ‘Gender Discourse and Musical Life in the GDR’, in Kelly, Elaine and Wlodarski, Amy (eds.), Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2011), 175–91.Google Scholar

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