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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463685903321

Autore

Fosler-Lussier Danielle <1969->

Titolo

Music in America's Cold War diplomacy / / Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-95978-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

California Studies in 20th-Century Music

Classificazione

LQ 89307

Disciplina

780.78/73

Soggetti

Music in intercultural communication - United States - History - 20th century

Arts and diplomacy - United States - History - 20th century

Music and globalization - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Communist countries History 20th century

United States Cultural policy History 20th century

Communist countries Foreign relations United States History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Instruments of Diplomacy -- 1. Classical Music and the Mediation of Prestige -- 2. Classical Music as Development Aid -- 3. Jazz in the Cultural Presentations Program -- 4. African American Ambassadors Abroad and at Home -- 5. Presenting America's Religious Heritage Abroad -- 6. The Double-Edged Diplomacy of Popular Music -- 7. Music, Media, and Cultural Relations Between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Conclusion: Music, Mediated Diplomacy, and Globalization in the Cold War Era -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles-classical, rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, and jazz-competed with those by traveling



Soviet and mainland Chinese artists, enhancing the prestige of American culture. These concerts offered audiences around the world evidence of America's improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy also created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although born of state-sponsored tours often conceived as propaganda ventures, these relationships were in themselves great diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America's soft power. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier shows that musical diplomacy had vastly different meanings for its various participants, including government officials, musicians, concert promoters, and audiences. Through the stories of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and college choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the value and consequences of "musical diplomacy."

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911011779703321

Titolo

Cities and affordable housing : planning, design and policy nexus / / edited by Sasha Tsenkova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2022

ISBN

1-000-43383-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

363.5

Soggetti

Low-income housing

Housing policy

City planning

Landscape art and architecture

City and town life

Community development, Urban

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Affordable Housing and the Future of Cities / Sasha Tsenkova --  Montréal: Building an Inclusive City / Suzanne LaFerrière -- Affordable Housing and Diversity in Vancouver / Abigail Bond -- Affordable Housing Transition in Calgary / Sarah Woodgate, Teresa Goldstein, and Claire Noble -- Affordable Housing Challenges: The Experience of the City of Edmonton / Jalene Anderson-Baron and Christel Kjenner -- Responses to Toronto’s Affordable Housing Challenge: Mobilizing for Action / Sean Gadon -- Mix and Match: A Framework for Understanding Mixed-Income Outcomes / Shomon Shamsuddin -- Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. / Joni Hirsch, Mark L. Joseph, and Amy T. Khare -- Paris Habitat’s Experience of Urban Regeneration to Create Affordable Housing / Stéphane Dauphin and Hélène Schwoerer -- Toronto: Revitalization in Regent Park 12 Years Later / Vincent Tong -- Mixed-Income Housing in New York City: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons of an Enduring Mayoral Commitment / Alex F. Schwartz and Sasha Tsenkova -- Partnerships for Affordable Housing in England / Kath Scanlon -- Resilience of Social Housing Systems in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen / Sasha Tsenkova -- Thinking “Outside the Box” about Affordable Homes and Communities / Avi Friedman -- Affordable Housing and Design Innovation: A View from Paris / Christelle Avenier and Sasha Tsenkova -- Affordable Housing Design + A New Urban Era in European Cities / Paul Karakusevic -- Amsterdam: More than a Social Housing Project / Jeroen Atteveld and Bas Liesker -- Pathways of Dutch and German Social Renting / Marietta E.A. Haffner -- Social Sustainability in Social and Affordable Housing / Meryn Severson and Esther de Vos -- Private Rental Housing in Canada’s Four Largest Metropolitan  Areas: Trends and Prospects / J. David Hulchanski.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people-based and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income housing and revitalise neighbourhoods. Twenty chapters provide unique perspectives on diversity of approaches in seven countries and fifteen cities in Europe, Canada and the USA. Combining academic rigour with knowledge from critical practice, the book uses robust empirical analysis and evidence-based case study research to illustrate the potential of affordable housing partnerships for mixed-income, socially inclusive neighbourhoods as a model to rebuild cities. Cities and Affordable Housing is an essential interdisciplinary collection on planning and design that will be of great interest to scholars, urban professionals, architects, planners and policy-makers interested in housing, urban planning and city building"--