The Propaganda Of Freedom

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252054792

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The Propaganda of Freedom by Joseph Horowitz Pdf

The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine. Joseph Horowitz writes: “That so many fine minds could have cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual cost of the Cold War.” He shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an anti-totalitarian “psychology of exile” traceable to its secretary general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov, and to Nabokov’s hero Igor Stravinsky. In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and political factors that actually shape the creative act. He here focuses on Stravinsky, who in Los Angeles experienced a “freedom not to matter,” and Dmitri Shostakovich, who was both victim and beneficiary of Soviet cultural policies. He also takes a fresh look at cultural exchange and explores paradoxical similarities and differences framing the popularization of classical music in the Soviet Union and the United States. In closing, he assesses the Kennedy administration’s arts advocacy initiatives and their pertinence to today’s fraught American national identity. Challenging long-entrenched myths, The Propaganda of Freedom newly explores the tangled relationship between the ideology of freedom and ideals of cultural achievement.

Author : Andrew R. Polk
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501759239

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Faith in Freedom by Andrew R. Polk Pdf

In Faith in Freedom, Andrew R. Polk argues that the American civil religion so many have identified as indigenous to the founding ideology was, in fact, the result of a strategic campaign of religious propaganda. Far from being the natural result of the nation's religious underpinning or the later spiritual machinations of conservative Protestants, American civil religion and the resultant "Christian nationalism" of today were crafted by secular elites in the middle of the twentieth century. Polk's genealogy of the national motto, "In God We Trust," revises the very meaning of the contemporary American nation. Polk shows how Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, working with politicians, advertising executives, and military public relations experts, exploited denominational religious affiliations and beliefs in order to unite Americans during the Second World War and, then, the early Cold War. Armed opposition to the Soviet Union was coupled with militant support for free economic markets, local control of education and housing, and liberties of speech and worship. These preferences were cultivated by state actors so as to support a set of right-wing positions including anti-communism, the Jim Crow status quo, and limited taxation and regulation. Faith in Freedom is a pioneering work of American religious history. By assessing the ideas, policies, and actions of three US Presidents and their White House staff, Polk sheds light on the origins of the ideological, religious, and partisan divides that describe the American polity today.

Author : Alex Carey
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 086840358X

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Taking the Risk Out of Democracy by Alex Carey Pdf

Introductory text primarily for students undertaking social research, explaining statistical concepts in plain English, and covering basic methods of statistical analysis. Provides many worked examples, graphs and diagrams. Includes a glossary, references and an index. The author teaches at the Warrnambool campus of Deakin University, and has much experience in teaching statistics to students with non-scientific backgrounds. His other publications include the best-selling 'Handbook of Student Skills'.

Author : Scott Lucas
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0719056942

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Freedom's War by Scott Lucas Pdf

Author : Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807848042

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Broadcasting Freedom by Barbara Dianne Savage Pdf

Tells how Blacks used radio

Author : Stefan Braun
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802086365

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Democracy Off Balance by Stefan Braun Pdf

Democracy Off Balance offers an unsettling analysis of hate censorship and hate censors as a complex paradox of modern democratic discourse.

Author : Alex Carey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252066162

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Taking the Risk Out of Democracy by Alex Carey Pdf

Alex Carey documents the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesse, and its export to and adoption by Western democracies like the United Kingdom and Australia. The collection, drawn from Carey's voluminous unpublished writings, examines how and why the business elite successfully sold its values and perspectives to the rest of society. A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone

Author : Audra J. Wolfe
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421439082

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Freedom's Laboratory by Audra J. Wolfe Pdf

Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.

Author : Jared A. Ball
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030423551

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The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For generations Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," and this book argues that commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity. This book exposes the claim as both a marketing strategy and myth, while also showing how that myth functions simultaneously as a case study for propaganda and commercial media coverage of economics. In sum, while “buying power” is indeed an economic and marketing phrase applied to any number of racial, ethnic, religious, gender, age or group of consumers, it has a specific application to Black America.

Author : American Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112060168629

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The Freedom to Read by American Library Association Pdf

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063066818

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Free Thought and Official Propaganda by Bertrand Russell Pdf

I have come here to-night, partly because I want to hear Mr. Russell, and partly because of an old affection for South Place and its traditions. I myself have been for more than forty years a professional teacher; and it is as a teacher-who thirty-seven years ago was dismissed for refusing religious conformity-that I most easily approach the problem of free thought. Though systems of education professing to teach men and women how to think have been in use in Europe for, perhaps, three thousand years, we have not yet reached that degree of success which would be shown if most educated people came to much the same conclusions on the great problems of life from a study of the same evidence. Everywhere you have rebels; but ninety per cent. of French or American students of history come to French or American conclusions, and eighty-five per cent. of English students come to English conclusions; eighty per cent. of Eton boys hold Eton political opinions all their lives; ninety per cent. of the Irish Catholic population of the United States seem to hold generation after generation identical opinions on religion and politics which are not held by the vast majority of Americans. It may be said that in these cases only one kind of evidence is allowed to reach the students in each institution.

Author : Greg Barnhisel,Catherine Turner
Publisher : Studies in Print Culture and t
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1558499601

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Pressing the Fight by Greg Barnhisel,Catherine Turner Pdf

"In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the myriad ways print was used in the Cold War. Looking at materials ranging from textbooks and cookbooks to art catalogs, newspaper comics, and travel guides, they analyze not only the content of printed matter but also the material circumstances of its production, the people and institutions that disseminated it, and the audiences that consumed it. Among topics discussed are the infiltration of book publishing by propagandists East and West; the distribution of pro-American printed matter in postwar Japan through libraries, schools, and consulates; and the collaboration of foundations, academia, and the government in the promotion of high culture as evidence of superiority of Western values"--Fly leaf.

Author : Jeffery Alan Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : 9780195099461

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War & Press Freedom by Jeffery Alan Smith Pdf

War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? First Amendment scholar Jeffery A. Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the existence of an autocratic "higher law" of survival. Smith carefully surveys the development of statutory restrictions and military regulations for the news media from the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791 through the Gulf War of 1991. He concludes that the armed forces can justify refusal to divulge a narrow range of defense secrets, but that imposing other restrictions is unwise, unnecessary, and unconstitutional. In any event, as electronic communication becomes almost impossible to constrain, soldiers and journalists must learn how to respect each other's obligations in a democratic system.

Author : Arch Puddington
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813182650

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Broadcasting Freedom by Arch Puddington Pdf

Among America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American perspective on global events, RFE-RL served as surrogate home radio services and a vital alternative to the controlled, party-dominated domestic press in Eastern Europe. Over twenty stations featured programming tailored to individual countries. They reached millions of listeners ranging from industrial workers to dissident leaders such as Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Broadcasting Freedom draws on rare archival material and offers a penetrating insider history of the radios that helped change the face of Europe. Arch Puddington reveals new information about the connections between RFE-RL and the CIA, which provided covert funding for the stations during the critical start-up years in the early 1950s. He relates in detail the efforts of Soviet and Eastern Bloc officials to thwart the stations; their tactics ranged from jamming attempts, assassinations of radio journalists, the infiltration of spies onto the radios' staffs, and the bombing of the radios' headquarters. Puddington addresses the controversies that engulfed the stations throughout the Cold War, most notably RFE broadcasts during the Hungarian Revolution that were described as inflammatory and irresponsible. He shows how RFE prevented the Communist authorities from establishing a monopoly on the dissemination of information in Poland and describes the crucial roles played by the stations as the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. Broadcasting Freedom is also a portrait of the Cold War in America. Puddington offers insights into the strategic thinking of the RFE-RL leadership and those in the highest circles of American government, including CIA directors, secretaries of state, and even presidents.

Author : Laura A. Belmonte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812201239

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Selling the American Way by Laura A. Belmonte Pdf

In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the "American way of life." Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of U.S. propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, U.S. information experts defined the national interest not only in geopolitical, economic, and military terms. Through radio shows, films, and publications, they also propagated a carefully constructed cultural narrative of freedom, progress, and abundance as a means of protecting national security. Not simply a one-way look at propaganda as it is produced, the book is a subtle investigation of how U.S. propaganda was received abroad and at home and how criticism of it by Congress and successive presidential administrations contributed to its modification.