Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present [Paperback]

How does music shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, and communication, this volume interweaves historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.Introduction; Damien Mahiet, Mark Ferraguto, and Rebekah Ahrendt PART I: REPRESENTATION 1. Concealed Music in Early Modern Diplomatic Ceremonial; Arne Spohr 2. Serenatas in the Service of Diplomacy in Baroque Venice; Giulia Giovani 3. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Wages of Diplomatic Service; Jonathan Yaeger 4. Conflicting Dreams of Global Harmony in US-PRC Silk Road Diplomacy; Harm Langenkamp PART II: MEDIATION 5. Constructing Universality in Early Modern French Treatises on Music and Dance; Ellen R. Welch 6. Perpetual Peace and the Idea of Concert in Eighteenth-Century Thought; Fr?d?ric Ramel 7. JazzMade in Germany and the Transatlantic Beginnings of Jazz Diplomacy; Mario Dunkel 8. Music from the Embassy to the Underground in a Post-Soviet Belarus; M. Paula Survilla PART III: NEGOTIATION 9. The Princesse des Ursins, Loyal Subject of the King of France and Foreign Princess in Rome; Anne-Madeleine Goulet (translated by Rebekah Ahrendt) 10. Haitian Djaz Diplomacy and the Cultural Politics of Musical Collaboration; Melvin L. Butler 11. The US Department of State's Hip Hop Diplomacy in Morocco; Kendra Salois 12. Opening up Thinking Space for Improvised Collaborative Public Diplomacy; Willow Williamson Afterword: Music's Powers; Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Damien Mahiet, Mark Ferraguto, and Rebekah Arendt have put together a smart, engaging, and important set of essays on the use of music, musical events, and musical personalities in domestic and international diplomacy. & All of the essays in this volume are thoughtful and considered, engaging conscientiously with the concepts of power, control, embodiment, performanclÛ