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SUMMARY:American Musicians and Soviet Music
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 Presented by Kevin Bartig, College of Music\n
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 This 
 presentation explores the activities of 
 the American-Soviet Music Society and the Music 
 Committee of the National Council on Soviet-American 
 Friendship, two private, New-York-based 
 groups that championed US-Soviet musical 
 exchange during and immediately following 
 the Second World War. Scholars have given these 
 groups scant attention, often dismissing them 
 as diplomatically expedient byproducts of 
 the US-Soviet wartime alliance. Bartig shows, 
 however, that these groups coalesced around 
 cultural ties forged well before the war. Underlying 
 these ties were conceptions of musical 
 nationalism and universalism that linked the 
 developments of Soviet and American art music, 
 extolling similarities and shared goals. 
 These short-lived groups thus reveal much about 
 the way American musicians viewed Soviet 
 music before the advent of the Cold War, a time 
 when difference and competition became the 
 watchwords of an era. \n
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 Cosponsored by Music 
 in American Life \n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library, W449 (4th Floor, West Wing)
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