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

ISBN-13: 9783319631622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 297 str.

Frederic Ramel; Cecile Prevost-Thomas

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Understanding Musical Diplomacies: Movements on the “Scenes”

by Cécile Prévost-Thomas and Frédéric Ramel

Part I: Shaping the Musical Scene: Sounds and Voices as Objectives of Diplomacy

2. Europe in Rome / Rome in Europe: Diplomacy as a Network of Cultural Exchanges

by Michela Berti

3. Eighteenth-Century Diplomats as Musical Agents

by Mark Ferraguto

4. Targeting New Music in Postwar Europe: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Crafting of Art Music Avant-Garde Scenes

by Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet

Part II: Shaping the Diplomatic Scene: Sounds and Voices as Frameworks of Diplomacy

5. The Diplomatic Viol

by Rebekah Ahrendt

6. The Diplomat's Music Test: Branding New and Old Diplomacy at the Beginnings of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

by Damien Mahiet

7. Schaeffer, Boulez and the Everyday Diplomacies of French Decolonization

by Noé Cornago

Part III: Bringing Music to the Fore of the Diplomatic Scene: Sounds and Voices as Objects of Diplomacy

8. Negotiating the Pitch: For a Diplomatic A, at the Crossroads of Politics, Music, Science and Industry

by Fanny Gribenski

9. Music, Diplomacy and International Solidarity: The Campaign for Miguel Angel Estrella (1977-1980)

by Esteban Buch and Anaïs Fléchet 

10. The Eurovision Song Contest in the Musical Diplomacy of Authoritarian States

by Dean Vuletic

11. Music That Divides: The Case of Russian Musical Diplomacy in the Baltic States

by Emilijia Pundziute Gallois

12. Of Dreams and Desire: Diplomacy and Musical Nation Branding Since the Early Modern Period

by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht

O autorze

Frédéric Ramel is Full Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at Sciences Po, Centre de Recherches Internationales, France.

Cécile Prévost-Thomas is Associate Professor in Sociology of Music at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux, France.

Blurb

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.

Frédéric Ramel is Full Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at Sciences Po, Centre de Recherches Internationales, France.

Cécile Prévost-Thomas is Associate Professor in Sociology of Music at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux, France.