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The Propaganda of Freedom JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War - ebook24h - 12-24-2024 Free Download Joseph Horowitz, "The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War " English | ISBN: 0252045270 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence-to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union-failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine. Joseph Horowitz writes: "That so many fine minds could have cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual cost of the Cold War." He shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an anti-totalitarian "psychology of exile" traceable to its secretary general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov, and to Nabokov's hero Igor Stravinsky. Read more Recommend Download Link Hight Speed | Please Say Thanks Keep Topic Live Rapidgator 95byi.7z.html TakeFile 95byi.7z.html Fileaxa 95byi.7z Fikper 95byi.7z.html Links are Interchangeable - Single Extraction |