Pauline Fairclough

Senior Lecturer in Music

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After completing a PhD at Manchester University (2002) and spending a year teaching at Keele University (2003-04), Pauline moved to Bristol in 2004. Her chief research area is Russian and Soviet music. Her book A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony was published by Ashgate in 2006 and she has published articles in Music and Letters and Musical Quarterly. She reviews regularly for Music and Letters and various other journals. She is joint editor of the Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (CUP, 2008) and editor of Shostakovich Studies 2 (CUP, 2010) and Twentieth-century Music and Politics: Essays in memory of Neil Edmunds (Ashgate, forthcoming for 2012). Her current area of research focuses on Soviet musical life in the 1920s and 30s and Anglo-Soviet musical relations.

Together with Olga Digonskaya, Pauline chairs the International Musicological Society study group 'Shostakovich and his Epoch: Contemporaries, Cultures and the State'. Future meetings of the group will take place in Petrozavodsk (2011) and Rome (2012). For further details, see http://www.ims-online.ch/studyGroupDetails.aspx?id=9

Conferences

Past conferences and events:

'Shostakovich 2006: International Centenary Conference' http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/shostakovich

 '1948 and all that: Music, Politics and Power in the Soviet Union' with Marina Frolova-Walker, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 2009: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/962

Co-founder and convenor of the BASEES Russian and East European Music study group (REEM) with Rosamund Bartlett from 2006 until 2008. Their conference programmes can be viewed at http://www.basees.org.uk/sgreem.shtml

 'Twentieth-century Music and Politics', Department of Music, University of Bristol, 14-16 April 2010 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/music_politics

Research students

Pauline is currently supervising research students on the following topics: British composers and communism and religious music in Soviet Russia.

Main areas of teaching:

• Music history (Shostakovich, Stravinsky, 19th and 20th-century music, Russian opera, Soviet Music, Russian and East European music)
• Aesthetics of music (especially 20th century)
• Musicology (postgraduate)

Major publications

Books

• A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Ashgate, 2006.
• The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (jointly edited with David Fanning), Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Shostakovich Studies 2. Cambridge University Press, in press (forthcoming for October 2010).
• Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in memory of Neil Edmunds, Ashgate, forthcoming for 2012.

Articles

Refereed Journals:

• 'The Old Shostakovich: Reception in the British Press', Music and Letters, vol. 88/2 (2007), pp. 266-298.
• Review-article 'Shostakovich: Facts, Fantasies and Fictions'. Music and Letters vol. 86/3 (2005), pp. 452-460.
• 'The Perestroyka of Soviet Symphonism: Shostakovich in 1935.' Music and Letters vol. 83/2 (2002), pp. 259-273.
• 'Mahler Reconstructed: Sollertinsky and the Soviet Symphony.' The Musical Quarterly, vol. 85/2 (2001), pp. 367-390.

Chapters in Edited Books/Encyclopedias:

• 'Shostakovich and Dolmatovskiy: a last memoir' in Fairclough, ed., Shostakovich Studies 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.
• 'Slava! The "Official" Works'  in Fairclough and Fanning, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 259-282.
• ‘Narrative Strategies in Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony’ in Stefan Weiss and Melanie Unseld, eds., Ligaturen: Der Komponist als Erzähler Narrativität in Dmitri Schostakowitschs Instrumentalmusik, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008, pp. 147-165.
• 'The Old Shostakovich: A Short History of his British Reception, 1930-1990' in Rosanna Gianquinta, ed., D. D. Sostakovic tra musica, letteratura e cinema. Florence: Leo Olschki, 2007.
• 'Sollertinsky and Dialogical Symphonism', in David Shepherd, Craig Brandist, Galin Tihanov, eds, In the Master’s Absence: The Unknown Bakhtin Circle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 167-185.
• Numerous articles on Soviet composers for Alison Latham, ed., The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2002).

Chapters forthcoming:

• '"Symphonies of the Free Spirit": The Austro-German Symphony in Russia' in Julian Horton, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony., Cambridge University Press
• 'In search of music: the Russian anti-avant-garde' in Stephen Downes and Jeremy Barham, eds., Pursuing the Musical Avant-garde.
• 'Classics for the Masses: Western art music in workers' clubs in early Soviet Russia' in Pauline Fairclough, ed., Music and Politics in twentieth-century Europe: Essays in memory of Neil Edmunds, Ashgate.
• '"One should not sing of heaven and angels": Western sacred music in Soviet Russia' in Patricia Hall, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship', Oxford University Press.
• 'Art into Revolution': Wagner in early Soviet Russia' in Luca Sala, ed., The Legacy of Richard Wagner, Brepols.

Academic reviews:

• Music and Letters, forthcoming, Philip Bullock, Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England, RMA Monographs, 2009.
• Canadian Slavonic Papers, in press. Mary S. Woodside, ed., The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars. Memoirs and Selected Writings. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
• Notes, 66/3, 2010, pp. 561-3. Peter Schmelz, Such freedom, if only musical. Unofficial Soviet music during the thaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
• Music and Letters, 90/4 (2009), pp. 719-22, Simon Morrison, The people's artist : Prokofiev's Soviet years. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Music and Letters, 90/4 (2009), pp. 719-22, Simon Morrison, ed, Prokofiev and his World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Music and Letters, 90/4 (2009), pp. 714-16. Sergey Prokofiev, transl. Anthony Phillips, Diaries 1915-1922. Behind the Mask. London: Faber, 2008.
• The Russian Review, vol. 68, no. 2 (2009), p. 329, Michael Mishra, A Shostakovich Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2008.
• Slavonica, in press. Michael Kurtz, Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography. Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Slavonica, vol. 14/2 (2008), pp. 149-150. Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Music Divided: Bartok's Legacy in Cold War Culture, University of California Press, 2007; and Rachel Beckles Willson, Ligeti, Kurtag and Hungarian Music During the Cold War, CUP, 2007.
• Music and Letters, 90/1 (2009), pp. 126-129. Marina Frolova-Walker, Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Music and Letters, 89/3 (2008), pp. 448-450, Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union. The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2006.
• Music and Letters, 89/2 (2008), pp. 279-282,  Sergey Prokofiev, transl. Anthony Phillips, Diaries 1907-1914. Prodigious Youth. London, Faber and Faber, 2006.
• Eighteenth Century Music vol. 4/2 (2007), pp. 312-314,  Marina Ritsarev, Eighteenth Century Russian Music, Ashgate, 2006.
• Music and Letters, vol. 87/4 (2006), pp. 647-651, Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony. (Yale, 2006).
• Modern Languages Review, 102/1 (2007), pp. 303-4: John Riley, Shostakovich: A Life in Film. (I.B. Tauris, 2004).
• Slavonic and East European Review, 83/2, (2005), pp. 334-336: Neil Edmunds, ed., Soviet Music and Society Under Lenin and Stalin (London and New York, 2004).
• Music and Letters (2004), Vol. 85 No. 3, pp. 486-489: David Nice, Prokofiev: A Biography (New Haven and London: 2003).
• Slavonica (2003), 9/2, pp. 137-138: Simon Morrison, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (Berkeley: 2002).
• Slavonica (2002), 8/1, pp.110-112: Rosamund Bartlett, ed., Shostakovich in Context (Oxford: 2000).
• Slavonic and East European Review, (2002), 80/1, pp. 134-135: Neil Edmunds, The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement (Oxford: 2000).
• Slavonica (2000), 6/2, pp.139-141: Timothy L. Jackson, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Cambridge: 1999).