Toynbee, Jason and Vis, Farida
(2010).
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| URL: | http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443710367691 |
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Abstract
Music plays an important role in the BBC World Service. This article shows how, across sixty five years, notionally global music has been broadcast as a pragmatic way of reaching audiences beyond Britain. There is a contradiction here. The scheduling of 'world music' undoubtedly represents a cosmopolitan imperative to embrace cultural difference. Yet it is also an instrumental means of framing programmes and appealing to those audiences which are particularly significant for the funders of the Service, namely the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Through analysis of music programming and commentary at three conjunctures (World War Two, the 1980s and the contemporary period) a changing, yet in certain respects continuous, pattern in the use of music for public diplomacy is discerned. The article concludes by suggesting that
optimistic readings of cosmopolitanism fail to account sufficiently for the contradictions at stake here, contradictions which arise from persisting unequal relations of global power
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2010 Jason Toynbee, 2010 Farida Vis |
| ISSN: | 0163-4437 |
| Keywords: | BBC World Service; music; history; public diplomacy; cosmopolitanism |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Item ID: | 26326 |
| Depositing User: | Jason Toynbee |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2011 10:36 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2017 23:36 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/26326 |
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