MUSIC AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss2.11Keywords:
cultural diplomacy, international relations, law, politics, cultural interaction, musical art, national interestsAbstract
The relevance of the topic is determined by the intensified interest in cultural ways of minimizing tensions in the geopolitical field. The study focuses on the vector of influence of the phenomenon of cultural diplomacy on the formation, development, and strengthening of international relations. A significant part of the article is devoted to the role of musical art in expanding and improving diplomatic cooperation. The study uses analytical and synthetic methods, generalization, comparison, and induction. The article provides a comparative analysis of practical international initiatives in the field of musical diplomacy in selected countries, including Israel and Palestine, the US and Iran, South and North Korea. Critical limiting factors for the development and effectiveness of cultural diplomacy are identified. Key trends in the use of musical art for peace initiatives and the intensification of cultural exchange between countries are determined. Ways to strengthen diplomatic relations and cooperation in the cultural field in the current geopolitical situation are analyzed. The role of cultural diplomacy as a factor in the integration and productive interaction of individual states and their social formations has been proven. The priorities for the promising application of cultural diplomacy, in particular musical art, for resolving existing conflicts and preventing new ones have been substantiated. The significance of innovative models of cultural and artistic interaction in the international arena for enhancing the effectiveness of interregional diplomatic initiatives has been demonstrated. It is proposed that research within the selected subject area should focus on the development and practical testing of new approaches to the development of musical diplomacy.
References
1. Abiolu, R., L. Braithwaite, K. Choudhary, M. Heimonen, M. L. Jakobsen, J Li, ... and A. Yudkoff. Ethnomusicology and cultural diplomacy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
2. Atta, Misbah, and Sadia Siddiq. “Bridging divides: The trans-formative power of inclusive cultural diplomacy in shaping global relations”, Journal of Quranic and Social Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2023, pp. 106–118.
3. Bannerman, Julie. “Music Education and “Music for Uniting the Americas”, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, vol. 44, no. 2, 2023, pp. 229–247. https://doi.org/10.1177/15366006221082563
4. Canales, Carla Dirlikov. “The hard facts about soft power: lessons learned from US cultural diplomacy’, In: Soft power and the future of US foreign policy (pp. 180–202). Manchester University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526169136.00016
5. Dovzhynets, Inna, Maryna Petrenko, Evgeny Karpenko, Ivan Zabolotnyi and Hennadii Holiaka. “Social values in musical art in the context of intercultural communication: international experience”, Amazonia Investiga, vol. 12, no. 68, 2023, pp. 151–161. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.68.08.14
6. Fléchet, Anaïs, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz and Barbara L. Kelly (Eds.). Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Vol. 10). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800738959
7. Grincheva, Natalia. “The past and future of cultural diplomacy”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 30, no. 2, 2024, pp. 172–191. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2183949
8. Herrera, Eduardo. “The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History”, American Music, vol. 39, no. 3, 2021, pp. 394–398. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.39.3.0394
9. Hong, Ju Lee. East-West encounters in the music of Isang Yun: analyzing musical hybridity. Doctoral dissertation, University of Glasgow, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.83663
10. Kiel, Christina. “Chicken dance (off): Competing cultural diplomacy in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 26, no. 7, 2020, pp. 973–987. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1776269
11. Kumalaningrum, Widya Sari. “Strategi diplomasi publik Pemerintah Korea Selatan terhadap Indonesia melalui Hallyu”, Indonesia Berdaya, vol. 2, no. 2, 2021, pp. 141–148. https://doi.org/10.47679/ib.2021128
12. Litvinov, Oleksander. Law as a phenomenon of culture: an attempt at philosophical understanding: a monograph. Luhansk: Yantar, 2014.
13. Liu, Bess Xintong. “The Timpani Beats Just Hit on My Heart! Music, Memory, and Diplomacy in the Philadelphia Orchestra's 1973 China Tour”, Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 18, no. 3, 2021, pp. 395–418. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572221000189
14. Marc, Isabelle. “Around the world: France's new popular music diplomacy”, Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 28, no. 3, 2020, pp. 253–270. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2019.1682533
15. Masters, Giles. “Performing Internationalism: The ISCM as a ‘Musical League of Nations", Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 2022, vol. 147, no. 2, pp. 560–571. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2022.25
16. Mishra, Mayank. “Instrumentality of music in cultural diplomacy between India and Pakistan”, International Journal of Public Law and Policy, vol. 9, no. 1, 2022, pp. 75–91. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPLAP.2023.127321
17. O'Keeffe, Eamonn. “Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–1815”, Historical Research, vol. 97, no. 275, 2024, pp. 108–128. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad027
18. Pasler, Jann. “Music and African Diplomacy at the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, Dakar, 1966”, Diplomatica, vol. 3, no. 2, 2021, pp. 302–334. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-03020004
19. Ramel, F. “Beyond Bellephonic Sound: Exploring some Musical Diplomacies during the Ukraine War”, Global Journal of Human-Social Science, vol. 24, no. F1, 2024, pp. 31–40. https://doi.org/10.34257/GJHSSFVOL24IS1PG31
20. Rijo Lopes da Cunha, Maria. “Music as Cultural Diplomacy: Analyzing the Role of Musical Flows from the Arab Levant to New Cultural Poles in the Arab Gulf in the Twenty-First Century”, In: Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East (pp. 221–240). Springer International Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36279-8_10
21. Salois, Kendra. “Music/hip-hop diplomacy”, In: Handbook on Public Diplomacy (pp. 297–309). Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803926568.00034
22. Schneider, Cynthia. “Building peace and citizenship through cultural and public diplomacy”, Journal of Communication Management, vol. 27, no. 2, 2023, pp. 293–308. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-01-2023-0011
23. Statista. “Global recorded music revenue from 1999 to 2023 (in billion U. S. dollars)”, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/272305/global-revenue-of-the-music-industry/
24. Tallis, Benjamin. “Kraftwerk and the international 're-birth of Germany': Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and international relations”, Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 57, no. 3, 2022, pp. 268–289. https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367221098488
25. Wozniak, Audrey. “Cultural Diplomacy Despite the State: Mobility and Agency of State and Amateur Musicians in Turkish Classical Music Choirs”, In: Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East: Geopolitical Re-Configurations for the 21st Century (pp. 93–121). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36279-8_5
26. Zlotnyk, Oleksandr, Svitlana Borysova, Volodymyr Lytvynov, Oleksandr Lytvynov. and Iryna Poluboiaryna. “Musical art as a facilitator of cultural diplomacy and international relations”, Amazonia Investiga, vol. 13, no. 84, 2024, pp. 197–205. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.84.12.12
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Musica
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
