Satchmo Meets Amadeus examines the close encounters between classical music--the soundtrack of the Europeanized world--and jazz, the classical music of globalization. This is an eclectic collection of essays by renowned experts covering just about every aspect of the subject: the history of European and American music; African-American culture; international cultural encounters; the political, economic, and cultural histories of New Orleans and Salzburg; the political exploitation of music during the eras of National Socialism and the Cold War; the economic utilization of art by the...
Satchmo Meets Amadeus examines the close encounters between classical music--the soundtrack of the Europeanized world--and jazz, the classical ...
In seinen Erinnerungen schildert Peter Moser 40 Jahre Zeitgeschehen. Bei seinen Verwendungen im Ausland war er Zeuge außergewöhnlicher Ereignisse und Entwicklungen: des Aufstiegs von Indira Ghandi, des Krieges mit Pakistan und der Unabhängigkeit von Bangladesh im Jahre 1971, des Machtwechsels und der Demokratisierung Südkoreas 1987 und 1988 und der weltpolitisch turbulenten Jahre in den USA 1999 bis 2003. Das Jahr der Sanktionen der 14 EU-Mitglieder im Jahre 2000 war für die Beziehungen mit den USA nicht ohne Herausforderungen. In dieses Jahr fallen die Verhandlungen über...
In seinen Erinnerungen schildert Peter Moser 40 Jahre Zeitgeschehen. Bei seinen Verwendungen im Ausland war er Zeuge außergewöhnlicher Ereignisse un...
After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian-American relationship was one of a dwarf confronting a giant. America continued to offer a better life for many Austrian emigrants, while for America the small Austrian Republic was insignificant. However, there were times when Austria mattered geopolitically. During the post-World War II occupation of Austria, the US helped reconstruct Austria economically and was the biggest champion of its independence. During the Cold War, the US frequently used Austria as a mediator site for summit meetings. Austria adopted American...
After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian-American relationship was one of a dwarf confronting a giant. America continued to offer a...
This volume recovers and reintroduces the work of GUnther Anders (1902-1992), -the most neglected German philosopher of the twentieth century, - according to Jean-Pierre Dupuy. In his main philosophical work, Die Antiquiert-heit des Menschen (1956), Anders developed what he called a -philosophy of discrepancy, - an analysis of the gap between what we are able to produce and what we are able to imagine. Over a long career stretching almost seventy years, Anders published numerous philosophical essays, short stories, and poetry. His role as an arch-critic of ever more advancing...
This volume recovers and reintroduces the work of GUnther Anders (1902-1992), -the most neglected German philosopher of the twentieth century, - ac...
