Music and International History in the Twentieth Century

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Sonic History or Why Music Matters in International History
• Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
• Part I: Music, International Relations and the Absence of the State
• Chapter 1. The Wicked Barrisons
• David Monod
• Chapter 2. Modern Music and the Popular Front: The International Society for Contemporary Music and Its Political Context (1935)
• Anne C. Shreffler
• Part II: Music, International History, and the State
• Chapter 3. Music and International Relations in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
• Toby Thacker
• Chapter 4. Instruments of Diplomacy: Writing Music into the History of Cold War International Relations
• Danielle Fosler-Lussier
• Chapter 5. "To Reach... into the Hearts and Minds of Our Friends": America's Symphonic Tours and the Cold War
• Jonathan Rosenberg
• Chapter 6. Music Diplomacy in an Emergency: Eisenhower's "Secret Weapon," Iceland, 1954-1959
• Emily Abrams Ansari
• Chapter 7. Intimate Histories of the Musical Cold War: Fred Prieberg and Igor Blazhkov's Unofficial Diplomacy
• Peter J. Schmelz
• Chapter 8. "Where I Cannot Roam, My Song Will Take Wing": Polish Cultural Promotion in Belarus, 1988
• Andrea F. Bohlman
• Index