International Relations, Music and Diplomacy

Proposes an alternative study of IR based on the role of sensitivity

Offers an emotional or symbolical approach to diplomacy by examining the notion of the stage and therefore the representation of the self Examines the role of musical diplomacies beyond the issue of bipolarity in the context of war

Proposes an alternative study of IR based on the role of sensitivity Offers an emotional or symbolical approach to diplomacy by examining the notion of the stage and therefore the representation of the self Examines the role of musical diplomacies beyond the issue of bipolarity in the context of war

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. Understanding Musical Diplomacies: Movements on the Scenes.- 2. Europe in Rome / Rome in Europe: Diplomacy as a Network of Cultural Exchanges.- 3. Eighteenth-Century Diplomats as Musical Agents.- 4. Targeting New Music in Postwar Europe: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Crafting of Art Music Avant-Garde Scenes.- 5. The Diplomatic Viol.- 6. The Diplomat's Music Test: Branding New and Old Diplomacy at the Beginnings of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries.- 7. Schaeffer, Boulez and the Everyday Diplomacies of French Decolonization.- 8. Negotiating the Pitch: For a Diplomatic A, at the Crossroads of Politics, Music, Science and Industry.- 9. Music, Diplomacy and International Solidarity: The Campaign for Miguel Angel Estrella (1977-1980).- 10. The Eurovision Song Contest in the Musical Diplomacy of Authoritarian States.- 11. Music That Divides: The Case of Russian Musical Diplomacy in the Baltic States.- 12. Of Dreams and Desire: Diplomacy and Musical Nation Branding Since the Early Modern Period.