Music and international history in the twentieth century
By: edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Series: Explorations in culture and international history series -- v. 7; Explorations in culture and international history series -- 7.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781782385004; 9781782385011
Subjects: Music; History; Music and diplomacy; Music and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sonic history, or, Why music matters in International history / Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht; title: Part I: Music, international relations and the absence of the state. The wicked Barrisons /  David Monod. The International Society for Contemporary Music and its political context (Prague 1935) / Anne C. Shreffler; title: Part II: Music, international history, and the state.  Music and international relations in occupied Germany, 1945-49 / Toby Thacker. Instruments of diplomacy : writing music into the history of Cold War international relations / Danielle Fosler-Lussier. "To reach... into the hearts and minds of our friends" : America's symphonic tours and the Cold War / Jonathan Rosenberg. Music diplomacy in an emergency: Eisenhower's "secret weapon," Iceland, 1954-59 / Emily Abrams Ansari. Intimate histories of the musical Cold War : Fred Prieberg and Igor Blazhkov's unofficial diplomacy / Peter J. Schmelz. "Where I cannot roam, my song will take wing": Polish cultural promotion in Belarus, 1988 / Andrea F. Bohlman.