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Title Music and diplomacy from the early modern era to the present / edited by Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Contents Introduction; Damien Mahiet, Mark Ferraguto, and Rebekah Ahrendt -- PART I: REPRESENTATION -- 1. Concealed Music in Early Modern Diplomatic Ceremonial; Arne Spohr -- 2. Serenatas in the Service of Diplomacy in Baroque Venice; Giulia Giovani -- 3. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Wages of Diplomatic Service; Jonathan Yaeger -- 4. Conflicting Dreams of Global Harmony in US-PRC Silk Road Diplomacy; Harm Langenkamp -- PART II: MEDIATION -- 5. Constructing Universality in Early Modern French Treatises on Music and Dance; Ellen R. Welch -- 6. Perpetual Peace and the Idea of "Concert" in Eighteenth-Century Thought; Fřďric Ramel -- 7. "Jazz" Made in Germany" and the Transatlantic Beginnings of Jazz Diplomacy; Mario Dunkel -- 8. Music from the Embassy to the Underground in a Post-Soviet Belarus; M. Paula Survilla -- PART III: NEGOTIATION -- 9. The Princesse des Ursins, Loyal Subject of the King of France and Foreign Princess in Rome; Anne-Madeleine Goulet (translated by Rebekah Ahrendt) -- 10. Haitian Djaz Diplomacy and the Cultural Politics of Musical Collaboration; Melvin L. Butler -- 11. The US Department of State's "Hip Hop Diplomacy" in Morocco; Kendra Salois -- 12. Opening up Thinking Space for Improvised Collaborative Public Diplomacy; Willow Williamson -- Afterword: Music's Powers; Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Summary How does music (its concepts, practices, and institutions) shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together sixteen international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, French studies, German studies, and communication, this volume interweaves historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. Considering such issues as what it means for political bodies to act "in concert," the question of music's "universality," the concept of free improvisation as it relates to twenty-first century political policy, the role of orchestras and traveling musicians in promoting cultural exchange, and the use of music as an agent of globalization and transnational encounter, the essays not only cross disciplinary boundaries but also geographical and musical ones
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Music -- Political aspects -- History
Music and diplomacy -- History
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Music and diplomacy
Music -- Political aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ahrendt, Rebekah, editor
Ferraguto, Mark, editor
Mahiet, Damien, editor
ISBN 9781137463272
1137463279
9781349500192
1349500194