Music in America's Cold War diplomacy

Music in America's Cold War diplomacy /

"During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, this study illuminates the reception of these musical eve...

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Main Author: Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015
Series:California studies in 20th-century music ; 18.
Subjects:
United States. > Department of State. > Cultural Presentations Program > History > 20th century.
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.
United States > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Communist countries > Foreign relations > United States > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : instruments of diplomacy
  • Classical music and the mediation of prestige
  • Classical music as development aid
  • Jazz in the cultural presentations program
  • African American ambassadors abroad and at home
  • Portraying America's religious heritage
  • The double-edged diplomacy of popular music
  • Music, media, and cultural relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion : music, mediated diplomacy, and globalization.

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