Theatre, globalization and the Cold War. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Düll, editors.
• Editors: Balme, Christopher B; Szymanski-Düll, Berenika
• Contents: Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Conceptual Framework: From National to Transnational and Global History; Shifting Borders: Tours and Touring; Institutional Imbrications and Epistemic Communities; Acting, Artists and Art between the Battlefronts; Postcolonial Perspectives; Notes; Part I: Shifting Borders: Tours and Touring; Chapter 2: A Cold War Battleground: Catfish Row versus the Nevsky Prospekt; Notes Chapter 3: Spirituals, Serfs, and Soviets: Paul Robeson and International Race Policy in the Soviet Union at the Start of the Cold WarMinorities in the Soviet Union; The 1934 Trip; The 1936 Tour; The 1949 Visit; Robeson's Shift of Counter-discourse; Notes; Chapter 4: The Politics of an International Reputation: The Berliner Ensemble as a GDR Theatre on Tour; The Importance of Touring to the Young Berliner Ensemble; The Breakthrough Years; Negotiating the Travel Ban after the Wall; The International Dimension as Constant Presence; Concluding Remarks on a Lop-sided, Symbiotic Relationship NotesChapter 5: 'A tour to the West could bring a lot of trouble…'-The Mazowsze State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble during the First Period of the Cold War; A New Cultural and Folklore Tradition; The Birth of Mazowsze; On Tour; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Song and Dance Ensembles in Central European Militaries: The Spread, Transformation and Retreat of a Soviet Model; Introduction; Military Song and Dance Ensembles: Building on Three Older Cultural Traditions; The Triangle of Tension: Artistic Needs, Political Requirements and Military Utilitarianism; Artistic Needs; Political Requirements Military UtilitarianismFoundation of Ensembles 'As Alike as Two Peas in a Pod'; Post-Stalinist Period: From Reforms to Ossification; 'How Many Ensembles are there in the Bundeswehr?': The Ensembles Post-1989; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Theatre, Propaganda and the Cold War: Peter Brook's Midsummer Night's Dream in Eastern Europe (1972); The Dream-British Dreamers; The Dream-East European Dreamers; Conclusions; Notes; Part II: Institutions and Institutional Imbrications; Chapter 8: MI5 Surveillance of British Cold War Theatre; Modes of Cold War Theatre Industry Surveillance Mapping Communist LinksSoviet-front Support?; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Creating an International Community during the Cold War; The Eighth Congress of the ITI; Ionesco's Avant-garde; Performing Politics Between East and West; The Political Importance of the ITI Congress; Notes; Chapter 10: The Cultural Cold War on the Home Front: The Political Role of Theatres in Communist Kraków and Leipzig; I. Reconstruction (1945-50); II. Stalinism (1950-56); III. De-Stalinisation (1957-63); IV. Consumerism (1964-70); Notes; Part III: Acting, Artists and Art Between the Battlefronts
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.09/04; 301; Theater -- History -- 20th century; Cold War in literature; Drama -- 20th century; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Cold War (1945-1989) in literature; Drama; Theater; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; History -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History -- World; Theatre studies; Regional & national history; General & world history; Theater; World history; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319480848; 3319480847
• Related ISBNs: 9783319480831; 3319480839
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2017).
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