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The propaganda of freedom : JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the cultural cold war / Joseph Horowitz.
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Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Description
xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML3917.U6 H67 2023
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Subject(s)
Music
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Political aspects
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Music
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Political aspects
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Soviet Union
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History
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20th century
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Cold War
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Music and the war
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Congress for Cultural Freedom
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963
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Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich 1906-1975
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Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971
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Nabokov, Nicolas 1903-1978
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Series
Music in American life
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Summary note
"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 impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine. Horowitz shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an anti-totalitarian "psychology of exile" traceable to its secretary general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov, and to Nabokov's hero Igor Stravinsky. In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and political factors that actually shape the creative act. He focuses on Stravinsky, who in Los Angeles experienced a "freedom not to matter," and Dmitri Shostakovich, who was both victim and beneficiary of Soviet cultural policies. He also takes a fresh look at cultural exchange and explores paradoxical similarities and differences framing the popularization of classical music in the Soviet Union and the United States. In closing, he assesses the Kennedy administration's arts advocacy initiatives and their pertinence to today's fraught American national identity. Challenging long-entrenched myths, this book newly explores the tangled relationship between the ideology of freedom and ideals of cultural achievement"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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ISBN
9780252045271 (hardcover)
0252045270 (hardcover)
LCCN
2023000825
OCLC
1365385861
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