Red And Hot: The Fate Of Jazz In The Soviet Union 1917–1980
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed - tanning to pages. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact.
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they inherited a nation on the verge of a jazz revolution — and what followed was one of the most extraordinary cultural battles of the twentieth century. Red and Hot chronicles the turbulent, decades-long struggle between jazz and Soviet ideology, tracing how American syncopation took root in the workers' paradise, only to be repeatedly suppressed, rehabilitated, and suppressed again across six tumultuous decades. S. Frederick Starr writes with the authority of both a historian and a jazz musician, blending rigorous archival research with a genuine feel for the music itself. The work argues that jazz became a lens through which the Soviet state's relationship with Western culture, individual expression, and artistic freedom was refracted — and in doing so, reveals something profound about the nature of totalitarianism and the irrepressible human appetite for rhythm and improvisation. A landmark work at the crossroads of music history and Cold War scholarship, it leaves the reader wondering: can any state truly silence a song?
Author: S. Frederick Starr
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Oxford University Press
Genre: Music
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed - tanning to pages. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact.
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they inherited a nation on the verge of a jazz revolution — and what followed was one of the most extraordinary cultural battles of the twentieth century. Red and Hot chronicles the turbulent, decades-long struggle between jazz and Soviet ideology, tracing how American syncopation took root in the workers' paradise, only to be repeatedly suppressed, rehabilitated, and suppressed again across six tumultuous decades. S. Frederick Starr writes with the authority of both a historian and a jazz musician, blending rigorous archival research with a genuine feel for the music itself. The work argues that jazz became a lens through which the Soviet state's relationship with Western culture, individual expression, and artistic freedom was refracted — and in doing so, reveals something profound about the nature of totalitarianism and the irrepressible human appetite for rhythm and improvisation. A landmark work at the crossroads of music history and Cold War scholarship, it leaves the reader wondering: can any state truly silence a song?