International Relations, Music and Diplomacy : Sounds and Voices on the International Stage

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This volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective. Throughout history, diplomats have gathered for musical events, and musicians have served as national representatives. Whatever political unit is under consideration (city-states, empires, nation-states), music has proven to be a component of diplomacy, its ceremonies, and its strategies. Following the recent acoustic turn in IR theory, the authors explore the notion of “musical diplomacies” and ask whether and how it differs from other types of cultural diplomacy. Accordingly, sounds and voices are dealt with in acoustic terms but are not restricted to music per se, also taking into consideration the voices (speech) of musicians in the international arena. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Understanding Musical Diplomacies—Movements on the “Scenes” (Cécile Prévost-Thomas, Frédéric Ramel)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Europe in Rome/Rome in Europe: Diplomacy as a Network of Cultural Exchanges (Michela Berti)....Pages 23-41 Eighteenth-Century Diplomats as Musical Agents (Mark Ferraguto)....Pages 43-64 Targeting New Music in Postwar Europe: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Crafting of Art Music Avant-Garde Scenes (Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet)....Pages 65-90 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 The Diplomatic Viol (Rebekah Ahrendt)....Pages 93-114 The Diplomat’s Music Test: Branding New and Old Diplomacy at the Beginning of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries (Damien Mahiet)....Pages 115-139 Schaeffer, Boulez, and the Everyday Diplomacies of French Decolonization (Noé Cornago)....Pages 141-169 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 Negotiating the Pitch: For a Diplomatic History of A, at the Crossroads of Politics, Music, Science and Industry (Fanny Gribenski)....Pages 173-192 Music, Diplomacy and International Solidarity: The Campaign for Miguel Ángel Estrella (1977–1980) (Esteban Buch, Anaïs Fléchet)....Pages 193-211 The Eurovision Song Contest in the Musical Diplomacy of Authoritarian States (Dean Vuletic)....Pages 213-234 Music that Divides: The Case of Russian Musical Diplomacy in the Baltic States (Emilija Pundziūtė-Gallois)....Pages 235-256 Front Matter ....Pages 257-257 Of Dreams and Desire: Diplomacy and Musical Nation Branding Since the Early Modern Period (Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht)....Pages 259-274 Back Matter ....Pages 275-297