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Music on the Frontline: Nicolas Nabokov's Struggle Against Communism and Middlebrow Culture

Music on the Frontline: Nicolas Nabokov's Struggle Against Communism and Middlebrow Culture

Wellens, Ian

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General Music

ISBN10: 1138277347
ISBN13: 9781138277342
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2016
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In his position as Secretary General of the CIA-financed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), Nicholas Nabokov gave music a high profile in the work of this Cold War organisation, producing four international musical festivals under its auspices. This book reveals that Nabokov's musical involvement with the CCF was 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 culturally aware middle class.

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