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Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East

Author : Maria M. Rijo Lopes da Cunha
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031362781
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East written by Maria M. Rijo Lopes da Cunha and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers innovative perspectives on the study of music as cultural diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region often overlooked in such discussions. It offers an innovative contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, as well as political science and international relations, by highlighting the agency of non-state actors (local voices, communities, and grassroots organizations), thereby contributing towards de-centering the state, hitherto conceived as the chief player in cultural diplomacy. This volume is divided into four main parts organized along the following themes: 1. History and Historiography, 2. Migration, Diaspora, and Ethics, 3. Statecraft and Music Making, and 4. Affective and Sensorial Diplomacy. The perspectives offered in this volume offer a deeper exploration of bottom-up initiatives of cultural diplomacy through music, instead of the more usual analyses of top-down, state-directed programmes. Overall, the aim is to reconceptualize Middle Eastern, North African and Arab Gulf musical practices in their relationship to power and cultural diplomacy in order build a broader and pluri-dimensional account of these contentious relationships.

The Politics of Art

Author : Hanan Toukan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503627764
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Art written by Hanan Toukan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic developments have reshaped the region, this cohort of cultural producers has also found themselves at the center of intergenerational debates on the role of art in society. Central to these cultural debates is a steady stream of support from North American and European funding organizations—resources that only increased with the start of the Arab uprisings in the early 2010s. The Politics of Art offers an unprecedented look into the entanglement of art and international politics in Beirut, Ramallah, and Amman to understand the aesthetics of material production within liberal economies. Hanan Toukan outlines the political and social functions of transnationally connected and internationally funded arts organizations and initiatives, and reveals how the production of art within global frameworks can contribute to hegemonic structures even as it is critiquing them—or how it can be counterhegemonic even when it first appears not to be. In so doing, Toukan proposes not only a new way of reading contemporary art practices as they situate themselves globally, but also a new way of reading the domestic politics of the region from the vantage point of art.

European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948

Author : Karène Sanchez Summerer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030555402
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948 written by Karène Sanchez Summerer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the relationship between European cultural agendas and local identity formation processes and discusses the social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine via cultural lenses from an entangled perspective. The 17 chapters reflect diverse research interests, from case studies of individual archives to chapters that question the concept of cultural diplomacy more generally. They illustrate the diversity of scholarship that enables a broad-based view of how cultural diplomacy functioned during the interwar period, but also the ways in which its meanings have changed. The book considers British Mandate Palestine as an internationalised node within a transnational framework to understand how the complexity of cultural interactions and agencies engaged to produce new modes of modernity. Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research considers the European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1948) in Palestine. She is the PI of the research project (2017-2022), 'CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948)' (project funded by The Netherlands National Research Agency, NWO). She is the co-editor of the series 'Languages and Culture in History' with W. Frijhoff, Amsterdam University Press. She is part of the College of Experts: ESF European Science Foundation (2018-2021). Sary Zananiri is an artist and cultural historian.He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow on the NWO funded project 'CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948)' at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy

Author : David G. Hebert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793642923
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy written by David G. Hebert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates music's role in international relations worldwide. Specifically, this book offers "insider" views from expert contributors writing about music as a part of cultural diplomacy initiatives in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Japan, China, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Nigeria. Unique features include the book’s emphasis on diverse legal frameworks, decolonial perspectives, and cultural policies that serve as a basis for how nations outside “the west” use music in their relationships with Europe and North America.

Popular Music and Public Diplomacy

Author : Mario Dunkel
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383944358X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music and Public Diplomacy written by Mario Dunkel and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, pop, bluegrass, flamenco, funk, disco, and hip-hop, among others. This volume illuminates the interrelation of popular music and public diplomacy from a transnational and transdisciplinary angle. The contributions argue that, as popular music has been a crucial factor in international relations, its diplomatic use has substantially impacted the global musical landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.

American Encounters with Arabs

Author : William A. Rugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313055246
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book American Encounters with Arabs written by William A. Rugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sixty years, U.S. government officials have conducted public diplomacy programs to try to reach Arab public opinion—to inform, educate, and understand Arab attitudes. American public affairs officers have met serious challenges in the past, but Arab public criticism of the United States has reached unprecedented levels since September 11, 2001. Polls show that much of the negative opinion of the United States, especially in the Middle East, can be traced to dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy. Rugh, a retired career Foreign Service officer who twice served as ambassador to countries in the region, explains how U.S. government officials have dealt with key problem issues over the years, and he recommends ways that public diplomacy can better support and enhance U.S. national interests in the Middle East. This struggle for the hearts and minds of the Arab world, so crucial to the success of American efforts in post-occupation Iraq, is carried out through broadcasting, cultural contacts, and educational and professional exchanges. Rugh describes the difference between public diplomacy and propaganda. He points out that public diplomacy uses open means of communication and is truthful. Its four main components are explaining U.S. foreign policy to foreign publics; presenting them with a fair and balanced picture of American society, culture, and institutions; promoting mutual understanding; and advising U.S. policy makers on foreign attitudes. Public diplomacy supports the traditional diplomatic functions of official business between governments. Whereas diplomats from the United States deal with diplomats of foreign governments, public affairs officers deal with opinion leaders such as media editors, reporters, academics, student leaders, and prominent intellectuals and cultural personalities. Rugh provides an up-close-and-personal look at how public affairs officers do their jobs, how they used innovation in their efforts to meet the challenges of the past, and how they continue to do so in the post-September 11 era.

Bridge the Gap, Or Mind the Gap?

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789050311236
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Bridge the Gap, Or Mind the Gap? written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab-Western relations are deadlocked in a sphere of mistrust. Thinking about new policies and activities therefore demands, first and foremost, thinking about ways to break the deadlock. One possible inroad may be culture, the new kid on the block in diplomatic circles as the much-applauded 'public diplomacy' has not always proved very successful. While public diplomacy is often unilateral with an emphasis on explaining one's policies to the others, cultural diplomacy is here defined as a bi- or multilateral approach with an emphasis on mutual recognition. Is culture in general, and cultural diplomacy in particular, indeed a way to bridge the gap between Western and Arab worlds in terms of development cooperation? This was the topic of the conference entitled 'Bridging the Gap', organized by the Clingendael Institute in association with the Development Policy Research Project (DPRN) on 16 November 2007, when a number of renowned speakers gave presentations on the subject. Four of these presentations have been selected for publication: two from a cultural perspective; and two from a policy perspective (one discusses EU policy, the other US policy). Together they represent a discussion of the key issues that are often raised when discussing cultural diplomacy.--Provided by publisher.

The Syria-Iran Axis

Author : Nadia von Maltzahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755608270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Syria-Iran Axis written by Nadia von Maltzahn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : the role of culture in foreign policy -- Historical backdrop : overview of Syrian-Iranian relations since 1946 -- Policy and values -- Pre-1979 cultural diplomacy and foundations for post-revolutionary cultural exchange -- Iran's cultural diplomacy in Syria : the Iranian Cultural Centre in Damascus -- Syria's cultural diplomacy in Iran : the Arab-Syrian Cultural Centre in Tehran -- Students : fostering the bonds of the future -- Religious tourism : the blessedness of cultural ties -- Conclusion : cultural diplomacy, soft power and the Syria-Iran axis.

Music in Arabia

Author : Issa Boulos
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253057523
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Music in Arabia written by Issa Boulos and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage. Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this collection presents fresh perspectives and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transnational communities. The volume also examines music circulation as a commodity, such as with the production of early recordings, the transnational music industry, the context of the Arab Spring, and the region's popular music markets. As a bonus, readers can access a linked website containing audiovisual examples of the music, dance, and expressive culture introduced throughout the book. With the work of resident scholars and heritage practitioners in conversation with that of researchers from the United States and Europe, Music in Arabia offers both context and content to clarify how music articulates identity and nation among multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational populations.

The New Public Diplomacy

Author : J. Melissen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554938
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The New Public Diplomacy written by J. Melissen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate how public diplomacy can be successfully used to support foreign policy.

Us Public Diplomacy in the Middle East

Author : Injy Galal
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838351414
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Us Public Diplomacy in the Middle East written by Injy Galal and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today public diplomacy is fast replacing traditional diplomacy in bridging gaps between cultures and nations. Public diplomacy refers to the use of media and culture as well as other unofficial channels of communication, to enhance relationships between peoples of the world. Since the September 11th attacks, US had realized it suffers a severe image problem; hence, it resorted to public diplomacy in an attempt to remedy it. Thus, it has launched a campaign to win hearts and minds of the predominantly Arab and Muslim Middle East. As part of its campaign, it had created the Arabic speaking Al-Hurra television network, radio Sawa and the former Hi magazine, amongst others. This book will research and asses America's success in its public diplomacy campaign in the Middle East, through a combination of wide literature review and field research. It will document past trends and attempt to predict future ones.

Artists and the Arab Uprisings

Author : Lowell H. Schwartz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833080407
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Artists and the Arab Uprisings written by Lowell H. Schwartz and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional artists can play a positive role in shaping public debate and supporting democratic transition in the Middle East. This report explores the challenges artists have faced since the Arab uprisings, U.S. government programs to support arts in the region, and the wide array of nongovernmental activities to engage Arab artists, offering recommendations to improve support for these artists.

The Arab Avant-Garde

Author : Thomas Burkhalter
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573876
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Arab Avant-Garde written by Thomas Burkhalter and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styles, political motivations, professional trainings, and inter-continental collaborations that claim the mantle of "innovation" within Arab and Arab diaspora music. While most books on Middle Eastern music-making focus on notions of tradition and regionally specific genres, The Arab Avant Garde presents a radically hybrid and globally dialectic set of practices. Engaging the "avant-garde"—a term with Eurocentric resonances—this anthology disturbs that presumed exclusivity, drawing on and challenging a growing body of literature about alternative modernities. Chapters delve into genres and modes as diverse as jazz, musical theatre, improvisation, hip hop, and heavy metal as performed in countries like Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the United States. Focusing on multiple ways in which the "Arab avant-garde" becomes manifest, this anthology brings together international writers with eclectic disciplinary trainings—practicing musicians, area studies specialists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of popular culture and media. Contributors include Sami W. Asmar, Michael Khoury, Saed Muhssin, Marina Peterson, Kamran Rastegar, Caroline Rooney, and Shayna Silverstein, as well as the editors.

The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy

Author : Michael L. Krenn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472508785
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy written by Michael L. Krenn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of 9/11, the United States government rediscovered the value of culture in international relations, sending cultural ambassadors around the world to promote the American way of life. This is the most recent effort to use American culture as a means to convince others that the United States is a land of freedom, equality, opportunity, and scientific and cultural achievements to match its material wealth and military prowess. In The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy Michael Krenn charts the history of the cultural diplomacy efforts from Benjamin Franklin's service as commissioner to France in the 1770s through to the present day. He explores how these efforts were sometimes inspiring, often disastrous, and nearly always controversial attempts to tell the 'truth' about America. This is the first comprehensive study of America's efforts in the field of cultural diplomacy. It reveals a dynamic conflict between those who view U.S. culture as a means to establish meaningful dialogues with the rest of the world and those who consider American art, music, theater as additional propaganda weapons.

Musical Migration and Imperial New York

Author : Brigid Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226818012
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Musical Migration and Imperial New York written by Brigid Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through archival work and storytelling synthesis, Music Migration and Imperial New York revises, subverts, and supplements many inherited narratives about experimental music and arts in postwar New York into a sweeping new whole. From the urban street-level via music clubs and arts institutions to the world-making routes of global migration and exchange, this book seeks to redraw the geographies of experimental art and so to reveal the imperial dynamics, as well as profoundly racialized and gendered power relations, that shaped and continue to shape the discourses and practices of modern music in the United States. Beginning with the material conditions of power that structured the cityscape of New York in the early Cold War years (ca. 1957 to 1963), Brigid Cohen's book encompasses a considerably wider range of people and practices than is usual in studies of the music of this period. It looks at a range of artistic practices (concert music, electronic music, jazz, performance art) and actors (Varèse, Mingus, Yoko Ono, and Fluxus founder George Maciunas) as they experimented with new modes of creativity"--

Engaging the Muslim World

Author : Walter Douglas
Publisher : CSIS Reports
ISBN 13 : 9781442225312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Engaging the Muslim World written by Walter Douglas and published by CSIS Reports. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public diplomacy supports the interests of the United States by advancing American goals outside the traditional arena of government-to-government relations. Since 9/11, with the rise of al Qaeda and other violent organizations that virulently oppose the United States, public diplomacy in Muslim-majority countries has become an instrument to blunt or isolate popular support for these organizations. Efforts in this direction complement traditional public diplomacy that explains American policies and society to foreign publics. This report identifies six areas of primary concern. The first is a larger strategic issue; the other five are directed at the on-the-ground implementation of public diplomacy: (1) Define the goals; (2)Listen; (3) Measure success; (4) Reach the target audience; (5) Exchange people and ideas; (6) Get outside the bubble. There is no one path to success. Public diplomacy must be consistent, multifaceted, and localized to advance American goals in Muslim-majority countries. This report sketches a way forward to accomplish these goals.

Maintaining International Relations Through Digital Public Diplomacy Policies and Discourses

Author : Elita?, Türker
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668458241
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Maintaining International Relations Through Digital Public Diplomacy Policies and Discourses written by Elita?, Türker and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication technologies have become an important tool for instantaneous effects and reactions both individually and collectively. The fact that traditional discourses become digital by transferring them through tools heralded a new understanding of digital in individual and social networks. The tendency to use these features offered by communication technologies in international relations, rather than just individual use, has emerged as a result of being built over digital in their discourse on diplomacy. However, the concepts of transparency and public offering, which do not exist in classical democracy, clearly show themselves in digital public diplomacy. Maintaining International Relations Through Digital Public Diplomacy Policies and Discourses reveals the tendencies of countries, institutions, and their representatives to use communication technologies as a diplomatic tool in international relations practices. It reveals the difference between the discourses built on digital media and classical diplomacy. Covering topics such as crisis management, new media platforms, and international relations, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for government officials, diplomats, social media managers, communications professionals, students and faculty of higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians.