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- catalog abstract ""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 counteract Soviet successes in the fields of arts and intellectual life, appointed Nabokov (a Russian emigre and minor composer) as its Secretary General in 1951. Over the next ten years he gave music a high profile in the 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 Welles reveals, Nabokov's musical involvement with the CCF was in fact a struggle on two fronts. Apparently, a defence of Western modernism against 'backward', 'provincial' Soviet music, Nabokov's writings show this to have meshed closely with the domestic concern - shared by many intellectuals - that high culture was being undermined by an increasingly 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 of intellectuals."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12434804.
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Cultural policy History.".
- catalog coverage "United States Cultural policy History 20th century.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""As Ian Welles reveals, Nabokov's musical involvement with the CCF was in fact a struggle on two fronts. Apparently, a defence of Western modernism against 'backward', 'provincial' Soviet music, Nabokov's writings show this to have meshed closely with the domestic concern - shared by many intellectuals - that high culture was being undermined by an increasingly 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 of intellectuals."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""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 counteract Soviet successes in the fields of arts and intellectual life, appointed Nabokov (a Russian emigre and minor composer) as its Secretary General in 1951. Over the next ten years he gave music a high profile in the 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."".
- catalog description "Great Books and Wise Men: Nabokov's Road to the 1950 Berlin Congress -- Waking the Twilight Sleepers I: On Soviet Music and Shostakovich -- Waking the Twilight Sleepers II: On Provincialism and Prokofiev -- 'A Very Popular Fiasco': The 1952 Festival in Paris -- Filling the Gap: The CCF as Surrogate Ministry of Culture -- Paris/New York: Congress Divided -- One End Against the Middle: Intellectuals Behind the High Culture Stockade -- Authority and Exclusion: The Cold War and 'Difficult' Music.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 151 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "075460635X".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Cultural policy History.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
- catalog spatial "United States Cultural policy History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "780/.947 21".
- catalog subject "Congress for Cultural Freedom.".
- catalog subject "ML3917.S65 W45 2002".
- catalog subject "Music Social aspects History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Music and state Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978 Contributions in cultural policy.".
- catalog subject "Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978. Contributions in cultural policy.".
- catalog subject "Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978.".
- catalog subject "United States. Central Intelligence Agency Influence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Great Books and Wise Men: Nabokov's Road to the 1950 Berlin Congress -- Waking the Twilight Sleepers I: On Soviet Music and Shostakovich -- Waking the Twilight Sleepers II: On Provincialism and Prokofiev -- 'A Very Popular Fiasco': The 1952 Festival in Paris -- Filling the Gap: The CCF as Surrogate Ministry of Culture -- Paris/New York: Congress Divided -- One End Against the Middle: Intellectuals Behind the High Culture Stockade -- Authority and Exclusion: The Cold War and 'Difficult' Music.".
- catalog title "Music on the frontline : Nicolas Nabokov's struggle against communism and middlebrow culture / Ian Wellens.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".