Intro -- Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Note -- Part I. A Citizen Diplomat Prepares -- 1 Introduction -- Pan Americanism and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy -- Copland's Cultural Diplomacy in Latin America: Overview -- Methodology, Sources, and Orientation -- On the Job in Latin America -- A Diplomat's Background: Character and Experience -- 2 Copland and the Beginnings of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy -- Looking South: "A new world with its own new music" -- A "brief dalliance with jazz" -- "Modernist circles in which Mr. Copland's music chiefly has its being" -- Political Engagement -- "A legacy he could not inherit" -- Mexico: "Something fresh and pure and wholesome" -- Good-Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy and Latin America -- Music and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy -- "In danger of working in a vacuum" -- 3 Copland as Good Neighbor -- "The United States is way behind" -- A "Lofty Composer" and the OIAA -- "South American rhythms are swell" -- "Goodwilling" and Music for Export -- Jazz as Export? -- "Part of a slave race" -- "Jumbled proceedings" -- A "Special Envoy": Copland's Projects -- A Citizen Diplomat Prepares -- Part II. Copland, Latin America, and World War II -- 4 Diplomat "in the Field" -- "The Foreign Land Right Next Door" -- "Upholding the Ideals of Democracy" -- Copland in Peru -- Billy the Kid in Lima -- The "Switzerland of Latin America" -- 5 Copland in Argentina -- Argentina as Neighbor -- Copland and the Buenos Aires Press -- Folklore: A "magnificent trough" -- "At last: A composer with a fresh style" -- "A natural flair for Argentinian musical phraseology" -- Copland's Music in Buenos Aires: Two Publics -- 6 Copland in Brazil -- "A possible source for fresh musical experience" -- Courting Villa-Lobos -- A "tough life" -- Camargo Guarnieri: "Everything it takes".

"The heart is a dead muscle" -- Good Neighbor in Brazil -- "The Negro Problem" -- 7 Copland in Chile -- "All of South America Must Repel the Nazis" -- Copland Meets Chilean Composers -- Pablo Garrido and the Chilean Jazz Scene -- "Believe It or Not" -- The "blackest of Black music" -- 8 The Americas at War -- Copland in Cuba: "Am�erica indivisible" -- "Remarkable that we have never thought of South America before" -- State Department Duties -- To preach or to learn? -- Musical Pan Americanism at Home -- "Round, Round, Hitler's Grave" -- Guarnieri in the United States -- From Lincoln Portrait to Retrato de Lincoln -- The Real Copland? -- Pan Americanism and Approaching Victory -- Part III. Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar -- 9 The Early Cold War -- Aftermath of the Good Neighbor Policy -- Latin American Composers in the Berkshires -- An "enlightened and cordial opinion" -- "His music is universal" -- "Everyone seems genuinely glad to see me again" -- "Naivet�e, sentimentality, sweetness, and realism" -- "Being a pompier is no crime" -- "I would not be surprised" -- Defending U.S. Culture -- A "mess!" -- "If men will but keep the Peace" -- "Dullards" Making Music -- Other Brazilian Composers -- The Search for "Freshness" -- "A truer picture" -- 10 Shifting Ground and the Crisis of Modernism -- Folklore and the "musically unwashed" -- U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the HUAC -- "The only way to have a friend" -- A "state of flux and semiconfusion" -- A "perverted stance"? -- Copland as Twelve-Toner -- Citizen Diplomat Turns Enemy of the State -- Private Citizen in Caracas -- 11 The Sixties -- "A living refutation to communist-inspired lies" -- Copland and Ives: U.S. Universalists -- "Known only as the composer of El sal�on M�exico"? -- Copland and Aesthetic "Totalitarianism" -- "Too Much Brass" -- Interim.

"It's been a long time since I felt so little needed" -- Latin Americanism and the Avant-Garde -- An "absolutely inoffensive cocktail" -- "The State Must Not Direct the Artist" -- Copland and Leftist Chilean Composers -- "The cold truth" -- "Today a Composer Doesn't Die of Hunger" -- 12 Latin American Classical Music and Memory -- Lincoln Portrait and the "Sin of Suggestibility" -- Suggestibility and U.S.-Latin American Relations -- Memory, Music, and Latin America -- Copland and History -- Cultural Diplomacy Then and Now -- "The only way to have a friend" -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Index -- Series Page.

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