Jazz in US Public Diplomacy towards the USSR (1962-1971): Is Music an Effective Tool of Strategic Communications?

美国对苏联公共外交中的爵士乐（1962-1971）：音乐是战略沟通的有效工具吗？

• 批准号: 2613442
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2613442
• 关键词: Jazz; US; Public; Diplomacy; towards

In the 1950s jazz became the primary force in Americancultural diplomatic efforts. It consolidated itself as ametaphorical representation of the core principles ofAmerican democracy, as the two shared an inherenttension between structure and agency, rigid rules andimprovisation. This simple but powerful metaphorprompted the Eisenhower administration to establish theCultural Presentations Programme, which paid so-called'jazz ambassadors' to perform all over the world, therebyadvertising the appeal of American cultural and politicalvalues.This PhD explores US-sponsored jazz tours to the USSR-byBenny Goodman's big band in 1962 and Duke Ellington'sband in 1971-from a Strategic Communicationsperspective. It locates these tours within a broaderframework of Public Diplomacy, which ran against thebackdrop of heightened tensions between the superpowersand was woven into discourses around threats of violenceand mutually assured destruction. By investigating the roleof the jazz tours in superpower cultural relations, this studywill illuminate their relationships with geopolitical andmilitary contexts of the Cold War. Ultimately, this PhD aimsto offer a fresh conceptual understanding around musicculturaldiplomacy. It argues that the jazz tours (i)underpinned US foreign policy with a values-baseddiscourse; (ii) opened a direct route to networks of'persuadable' soviet citizens; (iii) acted as a safety-valve tokinetic threats in geopolitics of the US-USSR.

在1950年代，爵士队成为美国政府外交努力的主要力量。随着两人在结构和代理之间，严格的规则和进化之间具有固有的态度，它是对美国民主核心原则的大型代表的巩固。这个简单但有力的隐喻宣称艾森豪威尔政府建立了文化演讲计划，该计划付给了所谓的“ jazz大使”在世界各地的表演，从而使美国文化和政治价值的吸引力。沟通镜。它将这些旅行定位在公共外交的更广泛的框架中，这反对超级权力之间的紧张局势加剧的背部，并围绕着围绕暴徒的威胁相互保证的破坏而编织。通过调查爵士之旅在超级能力文化关系中的作用，这项研究将阐明他们与冷战的地缘政治和军事环境的关系。最终，该博士学位Aimsto介绍了有关音乐文化绘制的新概念性理解。它认为，爵士之旅（i）以基于价值观的方式为美国外交政策支撑； （ii）开辟了通往苏维埃公民网络的直接途径； （iii）在美国 - 乌斯尔的地缘政治中充当了安全气门的to型威胁。