Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present

TABLES 2.1 Imperial and French ambassadors in Venice, 1716-32 3.1 East Germany's increasing profit from touring ensembles, 1970-79 6.1 Concert in Saint-Pierre's Projet de traité pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe entre les souverains chrétiens (volume 3) 6.2 Concert in Rousseau's Extrait du projet de paix perpétuelle de Monsieur l'abbé de Saint-Pierre and Jugement sur le projet de paix perpétuelle Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Concealed Music in Early Modern Diplomatic Ceremonial....Pages 19-43 Serenatas in the Service of Diplomacy in Baroque Venice....Pages 45-67 The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Wages of Diplomatic Service....Pages 69-81 Conflicting Dreams of Global Harmony in US-PRC Silk Road Diplomacy....Pages 83-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Constructing Universality in Early Modern French Treatises on Music and Dance....Pages 103-123 Perpetual Peace and the Idea of “Concert” in Eighteenth-Century Thought....Pages 125-145 “Jazz—Made in Germany” and the Transatlantic Beginnings of Jazz Diplomacy....Pages 147-168 Music from the Embassy to the Underground in a Post-Soviet Belarus....Pages 169-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 The Princesse des Ursins, Loyal Subject of the King of France and Foreign Princess in Rome....Pages 191-207 Haitian Djaz Diplomacy and the Cultural Politics of Musical Collaboration....Pages 209-229 The US Department of State’s “Hip Hop Diplomacy” in Morocco....Pages 231-249 Opening up Thinking Space for Improvised Collaborative Public Diplomacy....Pages 251-266 Afterword: Music’s Powers....Pages 267-275 Back Matter....Pages 277-291 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. How does music (its concepts, practices, and institutions) shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together sixteen international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, French studies, German studies, and communication, this volume interweaves historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. Considering such issues as what it means for political bodies to act "in concert," the question of music's "universality," the concept of free improvisation as it relates to twenty-first century political policy, the role of orchestras and traveling musicians in promoting cultural exchange, and the use of music as an agent of globalization and transnational encounter, the essays not only cross disciplinary boundaries but also geographical and musical ones