International Relations, Music and Diplomacy

Frédéric Ramel is Full Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at Sciences Po, Centre de Recherches Internationales, France.Cécile Prévost-Thomas is Associate Professor in Sociology of Music at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux, France.

• 1. Introduction. Understanding Musical Diplomacies: Movements on the “Scenes”.- 2. Europe in Rome / Rome in Europe: Diplomacy as a Network of Cultural Exchanges.- 3. Eighteenth-Century Diplomats as Musical Agents.- 4. Targeting New Music in Postwar Europe: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Crafting of Art Music Avant-Garde Scenes.- 5. The Diplomatic Viol.- 6. The Diplomat's Music Test: Branding New and Old Diplomacy at the Beginnings of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries.- 7. Schaeffer, Boulez and the Everyday Diplomacies of French Decolonization.- 8. Negotiating the Pitch: For a Diplomatic A, at the Crossroads of Politics, Music, Science and Industry.- 9. Music, Diplomacy and International Solidarity: The Campaign for Miguel Angel Estrella (1977-1980).- 10. The Eurovision Song Contest in the Musical Diplomacy of Authoritarian States.- 11. Music That Divides: The Case of Russian Musical Diplomacy in the Baltic States.- 12. Of Dreams and Desire: Diplomacy and Musical Nation Branding Since the Early Modern Period.

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