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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.