Music on the Frontline - Nicolas Nabokov's Struggle Against Communism and Middlebrow Culture (Paperback)

The story of Nicolas Nabokov's involvement with the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) is a story of the politics and sociology of culture; how music was used for political ends and how intellectual groups formed and functioned during the Cold War. The seemingly independent CCF, established to counteractA apparent Soviet successes in the fields of the arts and intellectual life, appointed Nabokov (a Russian emigre and minor composer) as its Secretary General in 1951.A Over the next ten years he gave music a high profile in theA work of the organisation, producing four international musical festivals, the first and most ambitious of which was 1952's L'Oeuvre du XXe Siecle in Paris, an event which showcased the work of no less than 62 composers. As Ian Wellens reveals, Nabokov'sA musical involvement with the CCF was in fact a struggle on two fronts.A Apparently aA defenceA ofA Western modernism against 'backward', 'provincial' Soviet music, Nabokov's writings show this to have meshed closely with theA domestic concernA - shared byA many intellectuals -A that high culture was being undermined by an increasingly culturally aware middle class. His attacks on Soviet cultural policy, and his unflattering assessments of Shostakovich, are seen to be not merely salvos in the cold war but part of a broader campaign aimed at securing the authority and prestige ofA intellectuals.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2002
Authors:	Ian Wellens
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-27734-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Promotions
LSN:	1-138-27734-7
Barcode:	9781138277342

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