Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe
- Author: Carroll, Mark
It is an intelligently written ... study which assembles a great deal of contemporary thinking on the issue of modernism in the early 1950s ... Carroll's own reflections are well-considered... — More…
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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.