...This chapter examines the Soviet manipulation of international copyright law over an American film studio's fair use of music written by Soviet composers in an anti-Soviet film. At issue was the use of music written by Dmitry Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, and Aram Khachaturian in what American...

...This chapter discusses modernist music and performance in the aftermath of the first Russian Revolution. It begins by looking at the unrealized ballet by Sergei Prokofiev, Ala and Lolli (1915). Initially commissioned from Prokofiev by Sergei Diaghilev in 1914, it was later rejected...