Full Description
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.
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; Frédéric 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 theCultural 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
