ISBN:
9783319480848
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 350 Seiten)
Serie:
Transnational Theatre Histories
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Balme, Christopher B Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War
DDC:
301
Schlagwort(e):
World history
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Theater
;
Globalisierung
;
Geschichte 1945-1991
Kurzfassung:
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 War -- Minorities 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 -- Notes -- Chapter 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 Utilitarianism -- Foundation of Ensembles 'As Alike as Two Peas in a Pod'
Kurzfassung:
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 Links -- Soviet-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 -- Chapter 11: Years of Compromise and Political Servility-Kantor and Grotowski during the Cold War -- Stalinism-Socialist Realism (1949-55) -- The 60s: Gomułka's Reign (1956-70) -- The 1970s -- The 1980s: The Solidarity Period -- Notes -- Chapter 12: 'A Memorable French-Romanian Evening': Nationalism and the Cold War at the Theatre of Nations Festival -- Setting the Scene: 'A Memorable French-Romanian Evening'? -- Nationalist Communism, Theatre and the Cold War -- The Anatomy of a Postponed Departure: Theatre of Nations, 1968, First Attempt -- Theatre of Nations 1969, Second Attempt -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 13: An Eastern Bloc Cultural Figure? Brecht's Reception by Young Left-wingers in Greece in the 1970s
Kurzfassung:
Introduction -- The Political Condition in Greece, 1940s-70s -- The Brechtian Oeuvre: Point of Entry and Subsequent Dissemination in Greece -- Brecht's Theatre and Life as a Battleground in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Acting on the Cold War: Imperialist Strategies, Stanislavsky, and Brecht in German Actor Training after 1945 -- A 'Methodological Renewal of German Theatre' under Soviet Occupation (1945-49) -- Acting on the Cold War: Transzonal Interactions -- Stanislavsky Institutionalised: The DTI Around 1950 -- Bertolt Brecht and the Stanislavsky Dogma -- 'To Act Correctly' after the Construction of the Wall in 1961 -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Checkpoint Music Drama -- Notes -- Part IV: Postcolonial Perspectives -- Chapter 16: Whose Side Are You On? Cold War Trajectories in Eritrean Drama Practice, 1970s to Early 1990s -- Preliminaries: Cold War and Cultural Histories -- Introduction: Cold War and the Horn of Africa -- Cold War and EPLF Cultural Practices in the 1970s -- 'Revolutionary Culture' after the Strategic Retreat -- Alemseged Tesfai's Critique of Drama -- Theatre at the 'White House': Lavishness and Little Luxuries -- Notes -- Chapter 17: 'How close is Angola to us?' Peter Weiss's Play Song of the Lusitanian Bogeyman in the Shadow of the Cold War -- The Production and Suhrkamp -- The Reception of the Play in Sweden -- West Germany -- East Germany -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Manila and the World Dance Space: Nationalism and Globalization in Cold War Philippines and South East Asia -- Nation and Globalization in Cold War South East Asia -- The Cold War in Manila -- The Russians 'Cut In' to Manila -- US Big Apples to Dance For: Culture and Propaganda -- Some Choreographic Critiques -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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