Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, especially Africa, which became a ‘site of encounter’ for the staging of US-...
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| description | Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, especially Africa, which became a ‘site of encounter’ for the staging of US-Soviet theatre of influence. In West Africa, Ghana and Nigeria were strategically adopted as epicentres of western cultural philanthropy through the funding of cultural institutions and networks of selected artists as well as the organisation, sponsorship and hosting of collaborative artistical events covering drama, music, dance, and the visual arts. This chapter shall discuss selected American-sponsored cultural events and programmes in these territories as a sub-set of the cultural Cold War dynamics directed towards the ‘winning of hearts and minds’ as well as the institutionalisation of liberal values within these emerging societies. Events such as the 1961 Lagos Festival (sponsored by the American Society of African Culture) and the 1967 Ghana Festival of Arts (sponsored by the United States Information Service) shall be examined to ascertain, from a comparative perspective, the underlying structures of collaboration, organisation and reception of these events within the Cold War context. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1079532025-05-09T10:38:11Z Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence Morison, Gideon Ime Cultural Cold War, decolonization, postcolonial studies, cultural diplomacy, national theatre Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, especially Africa, which became a ‘site of encounter’ for the staging of US-Soviet theatre of influence. In West Africa, Ghana and Nigeria were strategically adopted as epicentres of western cultural philanthropy through the funding of cultural institutions and networks of selected artists as well as the organisation, sponsorship and hosting of collaborative artistical events covering drama, music, dance, and the visual arts. This chapter shall discuss selected American-sponsored cultural events and programmes in these territories as a sub-set of the cultural Cold War dynamics directed towards the ‘winning of hearts and minds’ as well as the institutionalisation of liberal values within these emerging societies. Events such as the 1961 Lagos Festival (sponsored by the American Society of African Culture) and the 1967 Ghana Festival of Arts (sponsored by the United States Information Service) shall be examined to ascertain, from a comparative perspective, the underlying structures of collaboration, organisation and reception of these events within the Cold War context. 2023-07-26T22:26:21Z 2023-07-26T22:26:21Z 2023-07-17T08:40:17Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63973 9781032051581 9781032051611 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/107953 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63973/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63973/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63973/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-5.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003196334-5 10.4324/9781003196334-5 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781032051581 9781032051611 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection Routledge 20 694559 open access |
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