Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East

Chapter 1. Introduction: Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East-Geopolitical Reconfigurations for the Twenty-First Century.- Part I Music as Cultural Diplomacy: History and Historiographic Perspectives.- Chapter 2. From the Ottoman Twilight to the Roaring Twenties: The Early Career of Sharif Muhiuddin Haidar.- Chapter 3. Strike an Elizabethan Pose: Early Music Diplomacy-Queen Elizabeth I's Clockwork Organ Gift to the Ottoman Court.- Part II Musical Diplomacy: Migration, Diaspora, and Deterritorialised Power.- Chapter 4. Melodies Heard and Unheard: The Promise and Limits of Cultural Diplomacy Through Music.- Chapter 5. Cultural Diplomacy Despite the State: Mobility and Agency of State and Amateur Musicians in Turkish Classical Music Choirs.- Chapter 6. Shahnameh in the Classroom: Iranian Music and DIY Cultural Diplomacy in the UK.- Part III Soft Power in State, Statecraft and Music-Making.- Chapter 7. Umm Kulthum and Cultural Diplomacy in Egypt.- Chapter 8. PerformingSoviet Cultural Diplomacy: "Western Art Music" and Musicians in Cairo 1955-1970.- Chapter 9. Musical Diplomacy in Mandate Palestine from 1936 to 1948.- Part IV Affective and Sensorial Diplomacy in Transnational Spaces.- Chapter 10. 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.- Chapter 11. Arabian Violence: Censorship in Morocco's Techno Underground.- Chapter 12. Musical Delineations of a PostNational Space for National Struggle: Hazara, Kurdish, and Baloch Cases.- Chapter 13. Epilogue: Cultural Diplomacy, Some Discontents./