Music and ideology in Cold War Europe

Introduction: issues and perspectives -- 1. Back to the future: Nabokov’s selection criteria for L’Oeuvre du XXe siècle -- 2. Nabokov, Shostakovich and the view from the bridge -- 3. Articles of war: the Prague Manifesto and the Progressistes -- 4. Creative freedom or political obligation? Serialism and Stalinism in France -- 5. Culture and confrontation at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées -- 6. Neither you nor they: the avant-garde and neutralité -- 7. Music and Sartrean commitment -- 8. René Leibowitz and the musician’s conscience -- 9. A forlorn hope: Sartre’s ’virtual’ audience -- 10. Serialism, scientism and the post-war world view -- Epilogue: the aftermath of L’Oeuvre du XXe siècle -- App.: the musical programme for L’Oeuvre du XXe siècle.