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Title:

Music and international history in the twentieth century / edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht.

Publisher:

Berghahn,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Music--History--History--20th century.
Music and diplomacy.
Music and state.
Music and diplomacy.
Music and state.
Music--Political aspects.
1900 - 1999
History.

Other Authors:

Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E., 1964- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Sonic history, or, Why music matters in International history / Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht -- 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 -- 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.

Series:

Explorations in culture and international history series ; volume 7

ISBN:

1782385002
9781782385004

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890912393

LCCN:

2014033532

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)