Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe (Hardcover)

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: issues and perspectives; 1. Back to the future: Nabokov's selection criteria for L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle; 2. Nabokov, Shostakovich and the view from the bridge; 3. Articles of war: the Prague Manifesto and the Progressistes; 4. Creative freedom or political obligation? Serialism and Stalinism in France; 5. Culture and confrontation at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees; 6. Neither you nor they: the avant-garde and neutralite; 7. Music and Sartrean commitment; 8. Rene Leibowitz and the musician's conscience; 9. A forlorn hope: Sartre's 'virtual' audience; 10. Serialism, scientism and the post-war world view; Epilogue: the aftermath of L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle; Appendix: the musical programme L'Oeuvre du XXe siecle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.