Around 2003, the 50th anniversary of the death of composer Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), a number of his propagandistic works were played in London and New York and recorded as well.
Adams told me that another purpose of this season's work was "propagandistic": he hoped that the local labor force would see the empty tombs and spread the word around the villages.
Many listeners have dismissed Shostakovich's orchestral portrait of Leningrad under siege as a work of propagandistic kitsch; Bernstein, through sheer force of belief, makes it sound like a masterpiece.
I quickly explained that it was merely a profile on McCain from the 2000 campaign trail and while the book didn't really take a position, it certainly was not a propagandistic, McCain-love-fest-work-of-journalism.
The subject — the propagandistic "Degenerate Art" exhibition, which presented modernist works for popular vilification — is familiar, and it ranks as scarcely a footnote in the annals of Third Reich infamy.
It's a critical work about propaganda and is far from being propagandistic.
When Orwell became a hero to Cold War liberals, his work, particularly "Animal Farm" and "1984," was seen as propagandistic and fatalistic.
In a recent interview, McVicar spoke eloquently of how he was troubled by German nationalistic elements within this otherwise "heart-warming" opera, by Wagner's antisemitic characterisation of Beckmesser, and by the work's association with the Nazis, who accorded it propagandistic status.
He was the chief propagandist for one of the most cynically propagandistic administrations in my lifetime.
