Pauline Fairclough
Biographic Data
| ID | 5931964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline Fairclough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairclough |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRCLOUGH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9984-8869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955
"French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting "national" music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Sovie…
The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945
This important collection of essays, covering eighteen national territories occupied by Nazi Germany or in a ‘neutral’ relationship with it during the Second World War, fills major gaps in the Anglophone musicological record. For while scholarship from each country represented here has documented at least to some extent the impact of occupation on its musical life, this research is frequently not well disseminated beyond national and/or linguisti…
And Beyond
Slavonic and East European Review, 97, 1, 2019 1917 and Beyond: Continuity, Rupture and Memory in Russian Music PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK & PAULINE FAIRCLOUGH Long before the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 2017, scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union had questioned the notion that 1917 might constitute some kind of single, decisive rupture, whether in historiography or history itself. In particular, historians …
Personal Friendships, Professional Manoeuvres
Personal friendships, professional manoeuvres: Edward Elgar in Russia before and after 1917' Thanks to a surge of interest over the last ten years or so, we know quite a lot about the performance of Russian music in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century England: who championed it, what was performed, how it was received in the press, and who the main conduits were. 1 We know, for instance, that Petr Chaikovskii was given an honorary doctora…
Twentieth-Century Music and Politics
Classics for the Masses
Twentieth-Century Music and Politics
Brothers in musical arms
Wartime correspondence between the conductor Sir Henry Wood and the composer Dmitrii Shostakovich marks the earliest point of Anglo-Soviet musical exchange at the highest artistic levels. Though short-lived due to Wood’s death in 1944, the correspondence shows how genuine warmth and mutual regard could coexist with a relationship that was brokered by government officials. Other archive sources around them reveal the varying shades of cynicism and…
Composing for the Red Screen
Considering his stature, the lack of up-to-date scholarship on Prokofiev until relatively recently has been both anachronistic and frustrating. Reasons for Prokofiev’s comparative neglect are manifold, of course: there is the Russian-language barrier, the difficulty of obtaining materials, and a lingering prejudice—by now hopefully dispelled—that such music ought not to be the domain of serious scholarship. Then, as if that were not enough to con…
Sergey Prokofiev, Diaries 1915-1923
This is the second volume of Anthony Phillips's translations of the diary Prokofiev kept between 1907 and 1933. The first, covering the years 1907–14, included the composer's Conservatoire years and earliest travels abroad. This volume takes us up to 1923, finishing three weeks before Prokofiev's marriage to Carolina Codina. If by the end of the first volume Prokofiev seemed an abrasive but fundamentally likeable character, still very young and r…
Creative Union
Since the opening of the Soviet archives after 1991, cultural and political historians have uncovered a wealth of material relating to every aspect of Soviet life. Overheard conversations between friends and colleagues, anonymous denunciations, personal requests to Stalin and the Politburo—the sheer volume of meticulously filed material is as intimidating as it is fascinating. One of the most important consequences of sifting through this kind of…
Sergey Prokofiev
Diary-keeping, like letter-writing, is increasingly a lost art in the twenty-first century. But at the time Prokofiev was writing his diary, it was a normal part of Russian middle-class life; several of his contemporaries who feature in his early diary kept diaries themselves, notably Nikolay Myaskovsky (who later disposed of much of it, retaining only selected portions). Indeed, despite the obvious dangers of keeping any written record of one's …
The 'Old Shostakovich
This article attempts to reconstruct the persona of the 'Old Shostakovich' in Britain the pre-Testimony Shostakovich that is now a distant memory. Through examining widely disseminated sources such as newspaper reviews, radio broadcasts, articles in popular magazines, and programme notes, it traces Shostakovich's reception history in a culture that effected a shift from staunchly defending music's independence from politics to insisting upon poli…
Facts, Fantasies, and Fictions
The ‘Perestroyka’ of Soviet Symphonism
Socialist realism is commonly regarded as sounding a death knell for Soviet artistic creation. Yet, as proceedings from the 1935 ‘Discussions about Soviet Symphonism’ conference show, it was so imprecisely formulated that no one could agree on its implications for Soviet symphonism. Soviet composers and musicologists tried to turn this to their advantage in several ways. It is argued that, with crucial backing from prominent musicologists such as…
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The ‘Perestroyka’ of Soviet Symphonism
Socialist realism is commonly regarded as sounding a death knell for Soviet artistic creation. Yet, as proceedings from the 1935 ‘Discussions about Soviet Symphonism’ conference show, it was so imprecisely formulated that no one could agree on its implications for Soviet symphonism. Soviet composers and musicologists tried to turn this to their advantage in several ways. It is argued that, with crucial backing from prominent musicologists such as…
Facts, Fantasies, and Fictions
The 'Old Shostakovich
This article attempts to reconstruct the persona of the 'Old Shostakovich' in Britain the pre-Testimony Shostakovich that is now a distant memory. Through examining widely disseminated sources such as newspaper reviews, radio broadcasts, articles in popular magazines, and programme notes, it traces Shostakovich's reception history in a culture that effected a shift from staunchly defending music's independence from politics to insisting upon poli…
Creative Union
Since the opening of the Soviet archives after 1991, cultural and political historians have uncovered a wealth of material relating to every aspect of Soviet life. Overheard conversations between friends and colleagues, anonymous denunciations, personal requests to Stalin and the Politburo—the sheer volume of meticulously filed material is as intimidating as it is fascinating. One of the most important consequences of sifting through this kind of…
Sergey Prokofiev
Diary-keeping, like letter-writing, is increasingly a lost art in the twenty-first century. But at the time Prokofiev was writing his diary, it was a normal part of Russian middle-class life; several of his contemporaries who feature in his early diary kept diaries themselves, notably Nikolay Myaskovsky (who later disposed of much of it, retaining only selected portions). Indeed, despite the obvious dangers of keeping any written record of one's …
Sergey Prokofiev, Diaries 1915-1923
This is the second volume of Anthony Phillips's translations of the diary Prokofiev kept between 1907 and 1933. The first, covering the years 1907–14, included the composer's Conservatoire years and earliest travels abroad. This volume takes us up to 1923, finishing three weeks before Prokofiev's marriage to Carolina Codina. If by the end of the first volume Prokofiev seemed an abrasive but fundamentally likeable character, still very young and r…
Composing for the Red Screen
Considering his stature, the lack of up-to-date scholarship on Prokofiev until relatively recently has been both anachronistic and frustrating. Reasons for Prokofiev’s comparative neglect are manifold, of course: there is the Russian-language barrier, the difficulty of obtaining materials, and a lingering prejudice—by now hopefully dispelled—that such music ought not to be the domain of serious scholarship. Then, as if that were not enough to con…
Twentieth-Century Music and Politics
Classics for the Masses
Twentieth-Century Music and Politics
Brothers in musical arms
Wartime correspondence between the conductor Sir Henry Wood and the composer Dmitrii Shostakovich marks the earliest point of Anglo-Soviet musical exchange at the highest artistic levels. Though short-lived due to Wood’s death in 1944, the correspondence shows how genuine warmth and mutual regard could coexist with a relationship that was brokered by government officials. Other archive sources around them reveal the varying shades of cynicism and…
And Beyond
Slavonic and East European Review, 97, 1, 2019 1917 and Beyond: Continuity, Rupture and Memory in Russian Music PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK & PAULINE FAIRCLOUGH Long before the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 2017, scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union had questioned the notion that 1917 might constitute some kind of single, decisive rupture, whether in historiography or history itself. In particular, historians …
Personal Friendships, Professional Manoeuvres
Personal friendships, professional manoeuvres: Edward Elgar in Russia before and after 1917' Thanks to a surge of interest over the last ten years or so, we know quite a lot about the performance of Russian music in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century England: who championed it, what was performed, how it was received in the press, and who the main conduits were. 1 We know, for instance, that Petr Chaikovskii was given an honorary doctora…
The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945
This important collection of essays, covering eighteen national territories occupied by Nazi Germany or in a ‘neutral’ relationship with it during the Second World War, fills major gaps in the Anglophone musicological record. For while scholarship from each country represented here has documented at least to some extent the impact of occupation on its musical life, this research is frequently not well disseminated beyond national and/or linguisti…
French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955
"French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting "national" music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Sovie…
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