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



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Autore: Fosler-Lussier Danielle <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Music in America's Cold War diplomacy / / Danielle Fosler-Lussier Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 780.78/73
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century composers
20th century music
accessible music
bela bartok
bela viktor janos bartok
career
cold war tensions
cold war
comparative musicology
ethnomusicology
folk music
hermann scherchen
hungarian composer
international politics
iron curtain
modernism
music
musical legacy
musical style
musicians
performing arts
pianist
pierre boulez
political action
political pressure
politics
radio programs
socialist realism
socialist state
theodor adorno
western composers
Classificazione: LQ 89307
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."
Titolo autorizzato: Music in America's Cold War diplomacy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95978-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788152203321
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Serie: California studies in 20th-century music.