Music and International History in the Twentieth Century

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 Universitat Berlin. 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.

• 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

"Jessica Gienow Hecht - has immersed herself in the study of classical music and examined its history in the modern international context. But the excellent contributions to this volume suggest that she is not alone." * Akira Iriye, Harvard University " - this is a valuable, thought-provoking anthology that is a strong addition to the burgeoning literature on culture and foreign relations." * Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University