Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy by Danielle Fosler-Lussier
By Danielle Fosler-Lussier
In the course of the chilly conflict, millions of musicians from the us traveled the realm, backed by means of the U.S. country Department’s Cultural displays application. Performances of track in lots of styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folks, blues, and jazz—competed with these via touring Soviet and mainland chinese language artists, improving the status of yankee tradition. those live shows provided audiences worldwide facts of America’s enhancing race kin, very good musicianship, and generosity towards different peoples. via own contacts and the media, musical international relations additionally created sophisticated musical, social, and political relationships on a world scale. even supposing born of state-sponsored excursions frequently conceived as propaganda ventures, those relationships have been in themselves nice diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America’s smooth strength. utilizing archival records and newly amassed oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier exhibits that musical international relations had significantly diverse meanings for its numerous individuals, together with govt officers, musicians, live performance promoters, and audiences. in the course of the tales of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and school choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the price and effects of “musical diplomacy.”
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Although American art music had occasionally impressed listeners elsewhere in the world, relatively little of it was known outside America’s borders. Nevertheless, classical music played a vital role in establishing the power relationships that made the Cultural Presentations program effective. ”7 Despite the limited appeal of art music, it could attract members of this educated segment of the world’s population. Even the newest, most difficult music was useful in this regard. 8 Crucially, the European tradition of classical music was imbued with social prestige—and its prestige was more widely recognized than the numbers of listeners would suggest.
Because race was omnipresent in critiques of the United States in the foreign press, sending African Americans abroad offered a rare opportunity for the State Department to present observable evidence about the achievements of its black citizens. The use of African Americans as ambassadors elicited a great deal of comment at home in the United States. Chapter 4 presents two highly visible African American musical ambassadors, Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson, and explores how the media and American and foreign publics responded to their work abroad.
35 Even the professional musicians on the Music Advisory Panel doubted the propaganda value of the most difficult music. 38 With urgent propaganda needs to meet and limited funding available, it is remarkable that officials found a niche for avant-garde music in government-funded music programs. The major impetus for using avant-garde music as propaganda was the need to improve the cultural reputation of the United States in Europe. S. Mission in Berlin that “official international exchange programs have tended to emphasize to the point of exclusivity the same dozen older and—by advancing standards—more conservative composers, who were the mainstay of American composition in the thirties and early forties, but who no longer represent current activity.