The propaganda of freedom : JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the cultural cold war /

"Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union--failed to impa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Horowitz, Joseph, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Series:Music in American life
Subjects:
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, > 1906-1975.
Stravinsky, Igor, > 1882-1971.
Nabokov, Nicolas, > 1903-1978.
Congress for Cultural Freedom.
1900-1999
Music > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Music > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Music and the war.
Music > Political aspects.
MUSIC / General
Soviet Union.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword. Why and What
  • JFK, the Artist, and "Free Societies" : A Cold War Myth
  • Nicolas Nabokov and the Cultural Cold War
  • Lines of Battle : The Case for Stravinsky;
  • The Case against Shostakovich
  • CIA Cultural Battlegrounds : New York and Paris
  • Survival Strategies : Stravinsky and Shostakovich
  • Survival Strategies : Nicolas Nabokov
  • Cold War Music, East and West
  • Enter Cultural Exchange
  • Summing Up : Culture, the State, and the "Propaganda of Freedom"
  • Afterword. The Arts, National Purpose, and the Pandemic.

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