"A Shostakovich Casebook" brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews - many newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union - to create a volume of essential reading and cutting-edge scholarship in Russian music studies. The contributors include Malcolm H. Brown, Laurel Fay, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich, and Richard Taruskin. Malcolm Hamrick Brown is founding editor of the series "Russian Music Studies". From the time he was a graduate-exchange student at the Moscow Conservatory in 1962, he has been continuously involved in teaching, lecturing, writing, and publishing on Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet music.