i am not sure about the target audience of this sponsorship. Was it supposed to persuade people in the west or in the east? Modern art and Jazz were not very o

i am not sure about the target audience of this sponsorship. Was it supposed to persuade people in the west or in the east? Modern art and Jazz were not very outspoken on political issues, it was very easy to sponsor them as the artists were not likely to bite the hand that feeds them (unlike Rock musicians who were much more unruly). Maybe it was propaganda aimed at an western audience? You still have to claim to be open minded and liberal and tell it to your own people; (see how we tolerate modern art? The commies are less liberal, never mind that we are not very liberal to minorities, blacks or those who we label to be communist sympathizers) i think in the east Rock music (later) was doing more damage to the communist regimes (in real terms) than Jazz. Modern art and jazz had a more limited appeal, while Rock music (later) had a much wider audience. (modern art was brait is funny that the person that helped the CIA here (post Stalin) was Khrushchev - in December 1962 he lashed out on modern art at a modern art exhibition in Moscow, following that they started a official campaign against modern art.)