Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War
by Jonathan Rosenberg
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"A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations. Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation's culture and politics. The work of renowned conductors, instrumentalists, and singers-and the activities of orchestras and opera companies-were intertwined with momentous international events: two world wars, show more the rise of fascism, and the Cold War. Jonathan Rosenberg recovers the politics behind classical music, showing how German musicians were dismissed or imprisoned as the country's music was swept from American auditoriums during World War I-yet, twenty years later, those same compositions could inspire Americans in the fight against Nazism while Russian music was deployed to strengthen the U.S.-Soviet alliance. During the Cold War, Van Cliburn's triumph in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow became cause for America to celebrate. In Dangerous Melodies, Rosenberg delves into the singular decades-long relationship of classical music and political ideology in America"-- show lessTags
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- "He's cuter than Tony Perkins," an admiring woman exclaimed, while a man, less smitten, called out, "He needs a haircut but he beat the Russkies." [Introduction]
On the evening of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson left the White House for the Capitol, where he would address a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)However difficult to imagine, across those eventful decades, countless people embraced the idea that what happened in the concert hall and the opera house was inseparable from the destiny of the United States and the well-being of the American people.
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- Music, History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 780.973 — Arts & recreation Music Music Biography And History North America United States
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- ML3917 .U6 .R67 — Music Literature on music Literature on music Philosophical and societal aspects of music. Physics Social and political aspects of music
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