Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present [electronic resource] /
Ahrendt, R.editor.
Ferraguto, M.editor.
Mahiet, D.editor.
How does music shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, and communication, this volume interweaves historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Representation; 1 Concealed Music in Early Modern Diplomatic Ceremonial; 2 Serenatas in the Service of Diplomacy in Baroque Venice; 3 The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Wages of Diplomatic Service; 4 Confl icting Dreams of Global Harmony in US-PRC Silk Road Diplomacy; Part II Mediation; 5 Constructing Universality in Early Modern French Treatises on Music and Dance; 6 Perpetual Peace and the Idea of "Concert" in Eighteenth-Century Thought
7 "Jazz-Made in Germany" and the Transatlantic Beginnings of Jazz Diplomacy8 Music from the Embassy to the Underground in a Post-Soviet Belarus; Part III Negotiation; 9 The Princesse des Ursins, Loyal Subject of the King of France and Foreign Princess in Rome; 10 Haitian Djaz Diplomacy and the Cultural Politics of Musical Collaboration; 11 The US Department of State's "Hip Hop Diplomacy" in Morocco; 12 Opening up Thinking Space for Improvised Collaborative Public Diplomacy; Afterword: Music's Powers; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
How does music shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, and communication, this volume interweaves historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.
Music.
Civilization-History.
International relations.
Arts.
Cultural studies.
Social sciences.
Music.
Cultural History.
International Relations.
Arts.
Cultural Studies.
Social Sciences, general.