The Propaganda of Freedom

Description

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

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

Appendix A: Nicolas Nabokov, “The Case of Dmitri Shostakovitch” (1943)

Appendix B: President John F. Kennedy/Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Amherst Speech (1963)

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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

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

Appendix A: Nicolas Nabokov, “The Case of Dmitri Shostakovitch” (1943)

Appendix B: President John F. Kennedy/Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Amherst Speech (1963)

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index