Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners has been used to advance agendas of power and protest.
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 o..
This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history, of challeng..
Each of this book's discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site, examining French representations of m..
This book presents ten studies focusing on music inspired and promoted by regimes such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, France under Vichy, the USSR an..
As the first English-language monograph to explore the connections of Spanish exiled composers with their homeland throughout 1939-1975 from the persp..
This edited volume shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the..
This comprehensive survey of music and musical life of the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991, takes into account the extensive body of scholarly li..
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 o..