Bedřich Smetana : myth, music, and propaganda /

Bedřich Smetana : myth, music, and propaganda /

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Author / Creator:	St. Pierre, Kelly, author.
Imprint:	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	166 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Eastman studies in music Eastman studies in music.
Subject:	Smetana, Bedřich, -- 1824-1884. Smetana, Bedřich, -- 1824-1884. Composers -- Czech Republic -- Biography. Composers. Czech Republic. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11029695

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ISBN:	9781580465106 1580465102
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The legacy of Bedřich Smetana has become so enmeshed in state ideology under Czechoslovakia's communist regime that little has been written about the composer since the fall of that regime. This book reopens inquiry into Smetana by exploring the earliest scholarship on the composer to reveal how it generated political myths about him and his works. It also examines the ways in which these myths were adapted in twentieth-century scholarship to suit the ideologies of the communist administration. Smetana - not just a nationalist composer, but also a national symbol - remains a dynamic figure whose mythology has been rewritten time and time again to suit shifting political perspectives.

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