Music and ideology in Cold War Europe
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Music and ideology in Cold War Europe
（Music in the twentieth century）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-236) and index
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Description
This book places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and political context. It pursues two general and intersecting lines of inquiry. The first details the stances towards musical conservatism and innovation adopted by cultural strategists representing Western and Soviet ideological interests at the onset of the Cold War. The second, which draws upon the commentaries of Theodor Adorno and Jean-Paul Sartre, recognizes that the Cold War generated a heightened political awareness amongst French musicians at the very time when the social relevance of avant-garde music had become the subject of widespread debate. The study considers the implications of the performance at L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle, an international arts festival staged in Paris in 1952 with the intention of discrediting socialist realism by means of two opposing musical types: neo-classicism (represented by Stravinsky's Symphony in C) and serialism (Boulez's Structures 1a).
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: issues and perspectives
- 1. Back to the future: Nabokov's selection criteria for L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle
- 2. Nabokov, Shostakovich and the view from the bridge
- 3. Articles of war: the Prague Manifesto and the Progressistes
- 4. Creative freedom or political obligation? Serialism and Stalinism in France
- 5. Culture and confrontation at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees
- 6. Neither you nor they: the avant-garde and neutralite
- 7. Music and Sartrean commitment
- 8. Rene Leibowitz and the musician's conscience
- 9. A forlorn hope: Sartre's 'virtual' audience
- 10. Serialism, scientism and the post-war world view
- Epilogue: the aftermath of L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle
- Appendix: the musical programme L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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