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Music, Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War
East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War
Coordinators: Mikkonen Simo, Suutari Pekka
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East West Cultural Interactions; East West Interaction; cleveland; Cleveland Orchestra; orchestra; Young Man; soviet; Soviet Music; artists; Cold War Cultural Diplomacy; sol; Soviet Art; hurok; Cultural Cold War; david; East West Cultural Exchanges; oistrakh; Sol Hurok; vladislav; zubok; Soviet Ballet; Pekka Suutari; Alan Bush; Oliver Johnson; Tourist Gaze; Pauline Fairclough; Till Tomorrow; Louise Wiggins; East West Cultural; Eva Näripea; Soviet Performers; Ewa Mazierska; Galina Ulanova; Lars Kristensen; American Social Realists; Clayton Koppes; Ballet Tours; Meri Elisabet Herrala; Choir Members; Tim Scholl; Amateur Troupes; Susan Costanzo; Cold War Studies; Stéphanie Gonçalves; Soviet Dancers; Concert Tours
Publication date: 06-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Foreword, Susan E. Reid; Preface; Introduction to the logic of east-west artistic interactions, Simo Mikkonen and Pekka Suutari. Part I Indirect Contacts, Images, and Imagination: Mutually assured distinction: VOKS and artistic exchange in the early Cold War, Oliver Johnson; Friendship of the musicians: Anglo-Soviet musical exchanges 1938-1948, Pauline Fairclough and Louise Wiggins; Gazing at the Baltic: tourist discourse in the cinema of the Baltic Sea countries, Eva Näripea, Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen. Part II Highly Publicised and Successful Examples of Exchange of Music and Musicians: The real ambassadors? The Cleveland Orchestra tours the Soviet Union, 1965, Clayton Koppes; Pianist Sviatoslav Richter: Soviet Union launches a ‘cultural Sputnik’ to the United States in 1960, Meri Elisabet Herrala; Student interactions, race, and the media: the Oberlin College Choir 1964 tour of the USSR and Romania, Tim Scholl. Part III Reception and Transfers in the Area of Theatre and Dance: Breaching the Iron Curtains: Russian ‘theatre tourists’ to Eastern Europe 1965-1981, Susan Costanzo; Ballet as a tool for cultural diplomacy in the Cold War: Soviet ballets in Paris and London, 1954-1968, Stéphanie Gonçalves; Conclusion, Simo Mikkonen and Pekka Suutari. Bibliography; Index.