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Alan Bush Modern Music And The Cold War
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Book Synopsis Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War by : Joanna Bullivant
Download or read book Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War written by Joanna Bullivant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised works, and friend of Soviet musicians, Bush proved to be 'a lightning rod' in the national musical culture. His radical vision for British music prompted serious reflections on aesthetics and the rights of artists to private political opinions, as well as influencing the development of state-sponsored music making in East Germany. Rejecting previous characterisations of Bush as political and musical Other, Joanna Bullivant traces his aesthetic project from its origins in the 1920s to its collapse in the 1970s, incorporating discussion of modernism, political song, music theory, opera, and Bush's response to the Soviet music crisis of 1948. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, including recently released documents from MI5, this book constructs new perspectives on the 'cultural Cold War' through the lens of the individual artist.
Book Synopsis Modern Music, Alan Bush, and the Cold War by : Joanna Louise Bullivant
Download or read book Modern Music, Alan Bush, and the Cold War written by Joanna Louise Bullivant and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.
Book Synopsis Satchmo Blows Up the World by : Penny VON ESCHEN
Download or read book Satchmo Blows Up the World written by Penny VON ESCHEN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and their ideas further than the State Department anticipated. Both in concert and after hours, through political statements and romantic liaisons, these musicians broke through the government's official narrative and gave their audiences an unprecedented vision of the black American experience. In the process, new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East--collaborations that fostered greater racial pride and solidarity. Though intended as a color-blind promotion of democracy, this unique Cold War strategy unintentionally demonstrated the essential role of African Americans in U.S. national culture. Through the tales of these tours, Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.
Book Synopsis Cold War, Crisis and Conflict by : James Klugmann
Download or read book Cold War, Crisis and Conflict written by James Klugmann and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume Five of a comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the twentieth century, and covers the period from 1951 to 1968. The cold war was at its most intense during this period, and it was also the time of the dramas of 1956 - Khruschev's critique of Stalin, the Hungarian uprising and the Suez crisis. Then in the 1960s the opening up of new possibilities for radicalism began, leading up to the events of May 1968. The impact of these events on the Party is extensively analysed, drawing on evidence from detailed archival research and many interviews with former activists. Topics covered include: the nature of the Party and its Soviet 'ecology'; its responses to the events of 1956; its involvement in anti-colonial struggles; its positions on international and economic issues and perspectives on class struggle; its relationship with the Labour Party and the trade unions; and the forces for change in the Party in the 1960s. Times change, and John Callaghan's book differs from previous volumes in this series in a number of ways - most obviously, in that it was written after the demise of the Soviet Union and the Party, and thus with much better access to archives and the views of former party members. In addition, it is organised thematically rather than chronologically, and is written from a more critical position than previous titles in the series. It shares with its predecessors, however, the idea that a history of the CPGB has some importance, not least for the light it casts on some of the key issues of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Years of Anger written by Andy Croft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1920-06-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Swingler (1909-67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation. A widely published poet, playwright, novelist, editor and critic, his work was set to music by almost all the major British composers of his time. This new biography draws on extensive sources, including the Security Services files, to present the most detailed account yet of this influential poet, lyricist and activist. A literary entrepreneur, Swingler was founder of radical paperback publishing company, Fore Publications, editor of Left Review and Our Time, and literary editor of the Daily Worker; later becoming a staff reporter, until the paper was banned in 1941. In the 1930s, he contributed several plays for Unity Theatre, including the Mass Declamation Spain, the Munich-play Crisis and the revues Sandbag Follies and Get Cracking. In 1936, MI5 opened a twenty-year long file on him prompted by a song he co-wrote with Alan Bush for a concert organized to mark the arrival of the 1934 Hunger March into London. During the Second World War, Swingler served in North Africa and Italy, and was awarded the Military Medal for his part in the battle of Lake Comacchio. His collections The Years of Anger (1946) and The God in the Cave (1950) contain arguably some of the greatest poems of the Italian campaign. After the War, Swingler was blacklisted by the BBC. Orwell attacked him in Polemic and included him in the list of names he offered the security services in 1949. Stephen Spender vilified him in The God that Failed. The book will challenge the Cold War assumptions that have excluded Swingler's life and work from standard histories of the period and should be of great interest to activists, scholars and those with an interest in the history of the literary and radical left.
Book Synopsis Singing Australian by : Graeme Smith
Download or read book Singing Australian written by Graeme Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle by : Alan Weisman
Download or read book Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle written by Alan Weisman and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At nearly every pivotal moment in international politics over the past twenty-five years–from the Reagan-Gorbachev summits, to the Iran-Contra scandal, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the decision to go to war in Iraq–if you dug deeply you would find a figure just behind the scenes influencing the action: that of Richard Perle. Largely eschewing senior cabinet appointments and other high-profile roles, the passionate, zealous Perle has been content to operate quietly—behavior which earned him the moniker of The Prince of Darkness. Nevertheless, his influence in Washington has helped to fuel an international disaster in Iraq and the growth of anti-Americanism worldwide. Alan Weisman, a former producer for 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, and the CBS Evening News, is now shining a light on this major political figure. While Perle has not authorized this biography, he has submitted to interviews with Weisman, encouraged his friends to do so, and provided non-classified material. Such access has granted Weisman a deep and critical insight into Perle’s methods and mindset. Weisman explores how Perle derailed a nuclear arms agreement between the U.S. and the then Soviet Union; his controversial business dealings; Perle’s tenure as Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board during the present Bush Administration; and his role leading up to the Iraqi War, including his dealings with Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi. From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the current saber-rattling over Iran, Syria, and North Korea, Perle has put his stamp on almost every decisive event in international politics. This is an insightful and incisive study of the highest quality, and one that everyone—not just policy experts—should read. From Prince of Darkness, What People Say about Richard Perle: “We used to have major problems when Richard would wander off the farm and be caught doing things that were not consistent with the policies that [Caspar] Weinberger and [George] Shultz were trying to implement.”—Colin Powell, Secretary of State, 2001-2005 “Richard can take a really bad idea and make it sound almost plausible and reasonable, even brilliant.”—Richard Burt, Assistant Secretary of State, 1983-1985 “I really don’t understand Perle. If you talk about the real neocons, there’s Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, and they’re very different. Paul Wolfowitz is an idealist, but he’s prepared to impose democracy by the sword. I don’t think Perle gives a [bleep] about democracy. Fundamentally, it’s all a means to an end.”—Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor, 1989-1993
Book Synopsis Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection by : New York Public Library. Reference Department
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographical Series by : American Institute for Marxist Studies
Download or read book Bibliographical Series written by American Institute for Marxist Studies and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Weapon in the Struggle by : Andy Croft
Download or read book A Weapon in the Struggle written by Andy Croft and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on new research to recover the fascinating histories of the artists, poets, musicians, film-makers and cultural visionaries of the Communist Party in Great Britain, placing them in a broader historical context and providing an introduction to British social and cultural history in the 20th century. Eleven essays attempt to unravel the achievements and failures of communist artists who, though mostly forgotten now, once had an extraordinary impact on British cultural life quite aside from the Party's political influence. Distributed by Stylus Publishing, Inc. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Twentieth-Century Music and Politics by : Pauline Fairclough
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Music and Politics written by Pauline Fairclough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.
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Download or read book Our Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lyndon Johnson and Europe by : Thomas Alan Schwartz
Download or read book Lyndon Johnson and Europe written by Thomas Alan Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He faced the dilemmas of maintaining the cohesion of the alliance, especially with the French withdrawal from NATO, while trying to reduce tensions between eastern and western Europe, managing bitter conflicts over international monetary and trade policies, and prosecuting an escalating war in Southeast Asia."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Modern Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Burt-Capon by : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Burt-Capon written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
