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Robert H. Greene Memorial Fund Lecture Telling a sonic history of late socialism, this talk traces the ways sound and music helped to construct Soviet identity in the decades after Stalin’s death. Sound, officials believed, was foundational in the construction of Soviet identity in two crucial ways: first, it provided the ideal medium through which to reinvigorate the utopian underpinnings of Marxist-Leninism after Stalin; and second, it was key to distinguishing Soviet socialism from Western capitalism.
Socialism, according to the state, needed to sound different from capitalism. Yet in the ears of the Soviet citizenry, socialism sounded like many things: some pleasing, some grating, most somewhere in between, and always, inevitably, personal. Gabrielle Cornish is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Wisconsin– Madison, where her research explores the connections between listening cultures and political ideology in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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