{"product_id":"aaron-copland-in-latin-america-9780252044854","title":"Aaron Copland in Latin America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland’s diaries inform Carol A. Hess’s in-depth examination of the composer’s approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland’s tours facilitated an exchange of music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland’s introduced works by U.S. composers (including himself) through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess’s focus on Latin America’s reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind rev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Among its many achievements, \u003ci\u003eAaron Copland in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital contribution to the study of U.S. cultural diplomacy. Carol Hess’s meticulously researched, beautifully written book is not only an essential work of history and biography; it chronicles and illuminates longstanding debates about the politicization and weaponization of music that inform policy to this day. As both a scholar and practitioner of cultural diplomacy, I will continue to turn to \u003ci\u003eAaron Copland in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e for edification and inspiration.”--Mark Katz, author of \u003ci\u003eBuild: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A noted scholar of classical composers in Latin America, Carol Hess once again delivers a deeply researched perspective on hemispheric history--this time focusing on the cultural diplomacy in Latin America of the composer Aaron Copland. With Copland’s internationalist spirit at center stage, his commitments to world peace are explored, as are his gifts as an open-minded cultural ambassador. Hess offers a richly contextualized and eminently readable book.”--Carol J. Oja, author of \u003ci\u003eBernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I. A Citizen Diplomat Prepares\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/b\u003eCopland and the Beginnings of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/b\u003eCopland as Good Neighbor: A Musical Diplomat and the OIAA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II. Copland, Latin America, and World War II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Diplomat “in the Field”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/b\u003eCopland in Argentina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Copland in Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/b\u003eCopland in Chile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/b\u003e“The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass”: The Americas at War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCopland, Latin America, and the Postwar \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Copland, Latin America, and the Early Cold War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/b\u003eShifting Ground: Copland, Latin America, and the Crisis of Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/b\u003eA “Living Refutation to Communist-Inspired Lies”: Copland in Latin America in the Sixties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/b\u003eLatin American Classical Music and Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecommended Reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400456446295,"sku":"9780252044854","price":87.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252044854.jpg?v=1730470726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aaron-copland-in-latin-america-9780252044854","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}