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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3669680 |
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.