The Politics of Music in International Organizations in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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Christiane Sibille
Abstract
This article examines the activities of international organizations in the field of music in the first half of the twentieth century. Despite the common association with music as a universal language and international art, it has not often been systematically investigated in the context of institutionalized international co-operation. By focusing on the International Musical Society, the International Society for Musicology, the International Society for Contemporary Music, the Permanent Council for the International Co-operation between Composers, and the activities of the League of Nations in the field of music, it analyzes common topics and different strategies to establish stable networks and co-ordinate the flow of information. By locating the activities of the experts involved along the two analytical axes of nationalization/internationalization and politization/standardization, it becomes not only possible to integrate the activities in the field of music into the history of international organizations, but also to gain important insights into the international and political origin of musicology as an academic discipline.
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Editors’ Note: Situating Internationalism 1919–1940s
- Defending Turkey on Global Stages: The Young Turk Reşit Saffet’s Internationalist Strategy in 1919
- The Politics of Music in International Organizations in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- International Experts or Fascist Envoys? Alberto Theodoli and Pietro Stoppani at the League of Nations
- Tourists at the League of Nations. Conceptions of Internationalism around the Palais des Nations, 1925–1946
- “The Muslim World” Question during the Interwar Era Global Imaginary, 1924–1945
- The Red Swastika Society’s Humanitarian Work: A Re-interpretation of the Red Cross in China
- Digesting the League of Nations: Planning the International Secretariat of the Future, 1941–1944
- Book Reviews
- Immanuel Ness: Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
- Robert D. Kaplan: In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
