Emily Abrams Ansari, The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War

Abstract

The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War by Emily Abrams Ansari is a provocative, accessible re-evaluation of six well-known and influential American symphonic composers whose careers intersected with Cold War politics. In the decades after World War II, as part of a campaign to demonstrate that its brand of democracy was superior to Soviet communism, the U.S. Government sought to convince European intellectuals and other world leaders that American democratic and capit...