LEADER 04361nam 2200949Ia 450 001 9910778947903321 005 20230207231608.0 010 $a0-520-94307-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520943070 035 $a(CKB)2550000000083010 035 $a(EBL)837305 035 $a(OCoLC)808600715 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000591570 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11399002 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591570 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10697822 035 $a(PQKB)10369770 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084613 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837305 035 $a(DE-B1597)519675 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520943070 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837305 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675762 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000083010 100 $a20080917d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLeonard Bernstein$b[electronic resource] $ethe political life of an American musician /$fBarry Seldes 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (301 pages) $cillustrations 300 $a"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p. 311 $a0-520-25764-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-250) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tILLUSTRATIONS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Young American: Bernstein at Harvard -- $t2. The Forties: Ascent and Blacklist -- $t3. American Biedermeier: 1951-1959 -- $t4. The Long Sixties: 1960-1973 -- $t5. Norton Lectures: 1973 -- $t6. Bernstein at Sea: 1974-1990 -- $t7. Understanding Bernstein -- $tEpilogue: A Man in Dark Times -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX 330 $aFrom his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America-blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport-and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes for the first time links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented account of the celebrity-maestro's life deepens our understanding of an entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections of American culture and political power. 606 $aMusicians$xPolitical activity$zUnited States 610 $a20th century. 610 $aamerican culture. 610 $aamerican history. 610 $aartists. 610 $abiography. 610 $ablacklisted. 610 $acareer. 610 $aclassical music. 610 $acold war america. 610 $acomposer. 610 $aengaging. 610 $aexile. 610 $afamous musicians. 610 $afbi files. 610 $afolk heroes. 610 $aiconic musicians. 610 $aleonard bernstein. 610 $alibrary of congress. 610 $amaestro. 610 $amodern history. 610 $amusic lovers. 610 $amusical career. 610 $amusical theater. 610 $anew york philharmonic. 610 $anew york. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apolitical activist. 610 $apolitical outcasts. 610 $apopular culture. 610 $aprogressive politics. 610 $aretrospective. 610 $arevolutionaries. 610 $astate department. 615 0$aMusicians$xPolitical activity 676 $a780.92 700 $aSeldes$b Barry$f1938-$01574642 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778947903321 996 $aLeonard Bernstein$93851036 997 $aUNINA