Popular music and public diplomacy : : transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Mario Dunkel and Sina A. Nitzsche.

In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genre...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studien zur Popularmusik
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Popular Music and Public Diplomacy 9 Music in Transnational Transfers and International Competitions 29 The Paradoxes of Cultural and Music Diplomacy in a Federal Country 49 Dervish on the Eurovision Stage 69 Between Propaganda and Public Diplomacy 95 "Liberated from Serfdom" 117 A Musical Inquisition? 133 Dancing in Chains 155 Becoming a Blue-Collar Musical Diplomat 175 Music Trade in the Slipstream of Cultural Diplomacy 197 National Flamencoism 209 The Ethics and Politics of Empathy in US Hip-Hop Diplomacy 233 Popular Musicking and the Politics of Spectatorship at the United Nations 255 From Sons of Gastarbeita to Songs of Gastarbeiter 277 Public Diplomacy and Decision-Making in the Eurovision Song Contest 301 List of Contributors 315 Index 321