20th-Century Music and Cultural Diplomacy
Lehrende:
Natasha Loges (N.Loges@mh-freiburg.de)
Fachbereich: Musikwissenschaft
Anmeldeverfahren:
Anmeldung über die Lernplattform Glarean
Unterrichtszeitraum: 19. Oktober 2026 bis 12. Februar 2027 | 2 Semesterwochenstunden
Wöchentliche Termine:
Mittwoch 10 bis 12 Uhr, Hauptgebäude, Raum 101
Abschluss: Unbenoteter Schein bei Teilnahme, benoteter Schein bei Hausarbeit
Music is always political, but sometimes even more than usual. In the mid-twentieth century, governments discovered the power of musical performers in shaping national public image. Classical music, jazz, and folk were each recruited to project power, forge alliances, and challenge colonial hierarchies, not only in the contest between the USA and USSR, but across a newly decolonising world. Including figures from Miriam Makeba to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Glenn Gould, this seminar explores how musicians bear national identity. As nationalism returns to the centre of global politics today, these issues have once again become urgent. This course introduces the principles of cultural diplomacy and explores a series of case studies ranging from the State Department Jazz Tours to the anti-apartheid concert stage.
Literatur
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Ansari, Emily Abrams, The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Beal, Amy C., New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)
Bourdaghs, Michael K., Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason, eds, Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021)
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Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Cliff, Nigel, Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story — How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (New York: HarperCollins, 2016)
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Danielson, Virginia, 'The Voice of Egypt': Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
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Feldstein, Ruth, How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
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Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C.E., 'The World Is Ready to Listen: Symphony Orchestras and the Global Performance of America', Diplomatic History, 36.1 (2012), 17–28
Hess, Carol A., Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Isacoff, Stuart, When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
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Mikkonen, Simo, and Pekka Suutari, eds, Music, Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War (Farnham: Routledge, 2016)
Monson, Ingrid, Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Murphy, David, ed., The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966: Contexts and Legacies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016)
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Saunders, Frances Stonor, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: New Press, 1999)
Schmidt, Dörte, and Laura Tunbridge, 'Diplomatic, Aesthetic, and Economic Dimensions of the Anglo-German Musical Landscape from Postwar to Cold War: Perspectives on the Early Careers of the Amadeus Quartet and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau', Acta Musicologica, 97.2 (2025)
Stokes, Martin, The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Von Eschen, Penny M., Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)
Anderson, Marian, My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography (New York: Viking, 1956)
Ansari, Emily Abrams, The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Beal, Amy C., New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)
Bourdaghs, Michael K., Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason, eds, Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021)
Casadesus, Gaby, My Musical Notes: A Journey in Classical Piano Between the World Wars and Beyond, trans. by Lawrence Lockwood, ed. by Thérèse Casadesus Rawson (Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2024)
Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Cliff, Nigel, Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story — How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War (New York: HarperCollins, 2016)
Crist, Stephen A., 'Jazz as Democracy? Dave Brubeck and Cold War Politics', Journal of Musicology, 26.2 (2009), 133–174
Danielson, Virginia, 'The Voice of Egypt': Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Duberman, Martin Bauml, Paul Robeson: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1988)
Dudziak, Mary L., Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Feldstein, Ruth, How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, Echoes of a Lifetime: Thoughts and Memoirs (London: Macmillan, 1989)
Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015)
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C.E., Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850–1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C.E., 'The World Is Ready to Listen: Symphony Orchestras and the Global Performance of America', Diplomatic History, 36.1 (2012), 17–28
Hess, Carol A., Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Isacoff, Stuart, When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
Jordan, Daniel, 'Sección Femenina: Documenting and Performing Spanish Musical Folklore During the Early Franco Regime (1939–1953)', Music and Letters, 101.3 (2020), 544–566
Keiler, Allan, Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey (New York: Scribner, 2000)
Merli, Paola, 'La Scala in the Aftermath of the Liberation, 25 April 1945 to 22 June 1946', The Musical Quarterly, 100.2 (2017), 155–198
Mikkonen, Simo, and Pekka Suutari, eds, Music, Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War (Farnham: Routledge, 2016)
Monson, Ingrid, Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Murphy, David, ed., The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966: Contexts and Legacies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016)
Nye, Joseph S., Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2004)
Prieto Peña, Ruth, 'Music and Power: Juventudes Musicales de España as an Instrument of Foreign Policy for the International Recognition of the Franco Regime: Florentino Pérez-Embid', Investigaciones Históricas. Época Moderna y Contemporánea, 40 (2020), 645–676
Saunders, Frances Stonor, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: New Press, 1999)
Schmidt, Dörte, and Laura Tunbridge, 'Diplomatic, Aesthetic, and Economic Dimensions of the Anglo-German Musical Landscape from Postwar to Cold War: Perspectives on the Early Careers of the Amadeus Quartet and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau', Acta Musicologica, 97.2 (2025)
Stokes, Martin, The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Von Eschen, Penny M., Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)