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04340aam a2200553 i 4500 001 52A22BD26E4511EEB99592A929ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231019010051 008 230106s2023 ilu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2023000825 020 $a 0252045270 020 $a 9780252045271 035 $a (OCoLC)1365385861 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d SPI $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a ML3917.U6 $b H67 2023 082 00 $a 780.973/0904 $2 23/eng/20230110 100 1 $a Horowitz, Joseph, $d 1948- $e author. 245 14 $a The propaganda of freedom : $b JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the cultural cold war / $c Joseph Horowitz. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xi, 222 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Music in American life 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Music $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Music $x History $z Soviet Union $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War $x Music and the war. 610 20 $a Congress for Cultural Freedom. 600 10 $a Kennedy, John F. $q (John Fitzgerald), $d 1917-1963. 600 10 $a Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, $d 1906-1975. 600 10 $a Stravinsky, Igor, $d 1882-1971. 600 10 $a Nabokov, Nicolas, $d 1903-1978. 600 17 $a Kennedy, John F. $q (John Fitzgerald), $d 1917-1963. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00035588 600 17 $a Nabokov, Nicolas, $d 1903-1978. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00010708 600 17 $a Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, $d 1906-1975. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00046784 600 17 $a Stravinsky, Igor, $d 1882-1971. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00038169 610 27 $a Congress for Cultural Freedom. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00514438 650 7 $a Music $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030414 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Horowitz, Joseph, 1948- $t Propaganda of freedom $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023 $z 9780252054792 $w (DLC) 2023000826 830 0 $a Music in American life 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030714.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=52A22BD26E4511EEB99592A929ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search