TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fosler-Lussier,Danielle
TI  - Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy
T2  - California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series
SN  - 9780520959781
AV  - ML3917.U6 -- .F67 2015eb 
U1  - 780.78/73 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Communist countries - Foreign relations - United States - History - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Imprint -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Instruments of Diplomacy -- 1. Classical Music and the Mediation of Prestige -- 2. Classical Music as Development Aid -- 3. Jazz in the Cultural Presentations Program -- 4. African American Ambassadors Abroad and at Home -- 5. Presenting America's Religious Heritage Abroad -- 6. The Double-Edged Diplomacy of Popular Music -- 7. Music, Media, and Cultural Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Conclusion: Music, Mediated Diplomacy, and Globalization in the Cold War Era -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
N2  - During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles--classical, rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, and jazz--competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese artists, enhancing the prestige of American culture. These concerts offered audiences around the world evidence of America's improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy also created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although born of state-sponsored tours often conceived as propaganda ventures, these relationships were in themselves great diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America's soft power. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier shows that musical diplomacy had vastly different meanings for its various participants, including government officials, musicians, concert promoters, and audiences. Through the stories of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and college choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the value and consequences of "musical diplomacy."
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