‘Story of a friendship’: Alan Bush, Grigorii Shneerson and cultural diplomacy before and during the Cold War
| Autor: | Louise Wiggins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Communication
media_common.quotation_subject Acknowledgement Perspective (graphical) Media studies 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies 060404 music Cultural exchange Friendship Musicology Law 0602 languages and literature Political Science and International Relations Cold war Sociology Iron Curtain 0604 arts Diplomacy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Russian Journal of Communication. 8:256-272 |
| ISSN: | 1940-9427 1940-9419 |
| Popis: | This article explores efforts by the British composer Alan Bush to facilitate cultural exchange from the late 1930s and across the Iron Curtain. I will argue that his unwavering support and championing of Soviet music deserves greater acknowledgement. Through the correspondence between Bush and the Russian musicologist Grigorii Shneerson it has been possible to compile a list of materials exchanged between the two unofficially. It is my intention to draw attention to a small, but not insignificant world of private exchange voluntarily undertaken by individuals such as Bush and to show that such exchanges played an important part in cultural diplomacy between the two countries. From a broader perspective, we will see how their communication was viewed by the British authorities as politically significant, but that for the two men it was predominantly a relationship about music. |
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