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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century

Beschreibung

Brings together scholars from fields of musicology and international history. Investigates significance of music to foreign relations. Asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence. Examines how cultural encounters fostered by music change ideas about international history.

Autor

Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is Chair of the Department of History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. She is the series editor of "Explorations in Culture and International History" (Berghahn Books) and her book Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany (1999) won the Stuart Bernath Prize and the Myrna Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Her most recent monograph, Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920 (2009, 2012 paperback) won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and is currently being translated into Chinese. In 2017, Gienow-Hecht won a grant from the German Research Association to pursue a research on a project titled "The Quest for Harmony: Classical Music, Emotion, and the Discourse on Human Rights in the United States since World War II". 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781785337581
• ISBN-10: 1785337580
• Artikelnr.: 48387214