Joseph Horowitz Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold Warrior 9780252045271

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Автор: Joseph Horowitz
Название: Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold Warrior
ISBN: 9780252045271
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Западная "классическая" музыка

Классическая музыка (с 1750 до 1830)

Политические свободы и политический котроль

ISBN-10: 0252045270
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.55 кг.
Дата издания: 26.09.2023
Серия: Music in american life
Язык: English
Размер: 162 x 236 x 25
Ключевые слова: Political control & freedoms, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War,MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda
Подзаголовок: Jfk, shostakovich, stravinsky, and the cultural cold war
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality

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.

Joseph Horowitz writes: “That so many fine minds could have cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual cost of the Cold War.” He 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 here 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, The Propaganda of Freedom newly explores the tangled relationship between the ideology of freedom and ideals of cultural achievement.

Дополнительное описание: Apologia

Preface: 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

Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold Warrior, Joseph Horowitz