Music and International History in the Twentieth Century / / ed. by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ansari, Emily Abrams,; Bohlman, Andrea F.,; Fosler-Lussier, Danielle,; Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E.,; Monod, David,; Rosenberg, Jonathan,; Schmelz, Peter J.,; Shreffler, Anne C.,; Thacker, Toby,
• HerausgeberIn: Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Culture and International History ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Sonic History, or Why Music Matters in International History -- Part I MUSIC, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND THE ABSENCE OF THE STATE -- Chapter One THE WICKED BARRISONS -- Chapter Two THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND ITS POLITICAL CONTEXT (PRAGUE, 1935) -- Part II MUSIC, INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, AND THE STATE -- Chapter Three MUSIC AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY, 1945–49 -- Chapter Four INSTRUMENTS OF DIPLOMACY Writing Music into the History of Cold War International Relations -- Chapter Five “TO REACH . . . INTO THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OUR FRIENDS” The United States’ Symphonic Tours and the Cold War -- Chapter Six MUSIC DIPLOMACY IN AN EMERGENCY Eisenhower’s “Secret Weapon,” Iceland, 1954–59 -- Chapter Seven INTIMATE HISTORIES OF THE MUSICAL COLD WAR Fred Prieberg and Igor Blazhkov’s Unofficial Diplomacy -- Chapter Eight “WHERE I CANNOT ROAM, MY SONG WILL TAKE WING” Polish Cultural Promotion in Belarus, 1988 -- INDEX