A Shostakovich Casebook (Paperback, New Ed)

"The book... includes... valuable essays and interviews, which movebeyond the scholarly controversy to sketch a nuanced picture of Shostakovich's lifeunder a totalitarian regime.... The 'Casebook' contributors compellingly warn ofreplacing one mask with another, one black-and-white myth with its simpleinversion." -- New York Times

..". an important andreadable collection.... It presents a devastating critique of Volkov's claims andscholarly practices in Testimony." -- New York Review ofBooks

A Shostakovich Casebook brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews -- many newly available since thecollapse of the Soviet Union -- to create a volume of essential reading andcutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include MalcolmH. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin.