Diplomatic Notes

Authors

  • Graham Carr Concordia University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v1i1.37

Keywords:

Fund for the Arts, Cold war diplomacy, American national identify, popular music historiography

Abstract

This article examines the US State Department's use of jazz and classical musicians as cultural diplomats in the Near and Middle East in the period from 1954–60 when the region had suddenly assumed new geopolitical significance. Focusing on tours sponsored by the President's Emergency Fund for the Arts, the article describes the strategic rationale for the programs and analyzes diplomatic assessments of their political value. Operating within the intellectual paradigms of Western canonicity and orientalism, government officials and musicians alike saw music as a positive expression of American national identity even as they extolled its ostensibly universal appeal for local populations.

Author Biography

  • Graham Carr, Concordia University

    Graham Carr is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Concordia University,Montreal. His current research focuses on Cold War security consciousness and the role of musicians and dancers in East–West cultural exchanges. A second project deals with photography and the visualization of music in the late 1950s. Department of History Concordia University Montreal, QC Canada H3G 1M8 [email protected]

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