Brings together scholars from fields of musicology and international history. Investigates significance of music to foreign relations. Asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence. Examines how cultural encounters fostered by music change ideas about international history.
Brings together scholars from fields of musicology and international history. Investigates significance of music to foreign relations. Asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence. Examines how cultural encounters fostered by music change ideas about international history.
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Chair of the Department of History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. She is the series editor of "Explorations in Culture and International History" (Berghahn Books) and her book Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany (1999) won the Stuart Bernath Prize and the Myrna Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Her most recent monograph, Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920 (2009, 2012 paperback) won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and is currently being translated into Chinese. In 2017, Gienow-Hecht won a grant from the German Research Association to pursue a research on a project titled "The Quest for Harmony: Classical Music, Emotion, and the Discourse on Human Rights in the United States since World War II".
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Sonic History or Why Music Matters in International History Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Part I: Music, International Relations and the Absence of the State Chapter 1. The Wicked Barrisons David Monod Chapter 2. Modern Music and the Popular Front: The International Society for Contemporary Music and Its Political Context (1935) Anne C. Shreffler Part II: Music, International History, and the State Chapter 3. Music and International Relations in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 Toby Thacker Chapter 4. Instruments of Diplomacy: Writing Music into the History of Cold War International Relations Danielle Fosler-Lussier Chapter 5. "To Reach... into the Hearts and Minds of Our Friends": America's Symphonic Tours and the Cold War Jonathan Rosenberg Chapter 6. Music Diplomacy in an Emergency: Eisenhower's "Secret Weapon," Iceland, 1954-1959 Emily Abrams Ansari Chapter 7. Intimate Histories of the Musical Cold War: Fred Prieberg and Igor Blazhkov's Unofficial Diplomacy Peter J. Schmelz Chapter 8. "Where I Cannot Roam, My Song Will Take Wing": Polish Cultural Promotion in Belarus, 1988 Andrea F. Bohlman Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Sonic History or Why Music Matters in International History Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Part I: Music, International Relations and the Absence of the State Chapter 1. The Wicked Barrisons David Monod Chapter 2. Modern Music and the Popular Front: The International Society for Contemporary Music and Its Political Context (1935) Anne C. Shreffler Part II: Music, International History, and the State Chapter 3. Music and International Relations in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 Toby Thacker Chapter 4. Instruments of Diplomacy: Writing Music into the History of Cold War International Relations Danielle Fosler-Lussier Chapter 5. "To Reach... into the Hearts and Minds of Our Friends": America's Symphonic Tours and the Cold War Jonathan Rosenberg Chapter 6. Music Diplomacy in an Emergency: Eisenhower's "Secret Weapon," Iceland, 1954-1959 Emily Abrams Ansari Chapter 7. Intimate Histories of the Musical Cold War: Fred Prieberg and Igor Blazhkov's Unofficial Diplomacy Peter J. Schmelz Chapter 8. "Where I Cannot Roam, My Song Will Take Wing": Polish Cultural Promotion in Belarus, 1988 Andrea F. Bohlman Index
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