Open AccessStyle and ideology: The cold war 'blend' in Greece
Author(s) -
Keti Romanu
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz0808055r
Subject(s) - communism , cold war , ideology , world war ii , style (visual arts) , creativity , resistance (ecology) , phenomenon , western culture , object (grammar) , musical , globalization , literature , history , political science , aesthetics , economic history , art , law , philosophy , politics , linguistics , ecology , epistemology , biology
This paper describes cultural policy in Greece from the end of World War II up to the fall of the junta of colonels in 1974. The writer's object is to show how the Cold War favoured defeated Western countries, which participated effectively in the globalisation of American culture, as in the Western world de-nazification was transformed into a purge of communism. Using the careers of three composers active in communist resistance organizations as examples (Iannis Xenakis, Mikis Theodorakis and Alecos Xenos), the writer describes the repercussions of this phenomenon in Greek musical life and creativity