Music, diplomacy and emotions

What are the key symbolic and political issues within the mobilisation of music in diplomacy? What power do the diplomatic actors give to music in order to be able to use it as a metaphor or model of international relations? Review of Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, Damien Mahiet (eds.), Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 291 p.; and Todd H. Hall, Emotional Diplomacy. Official emotion on the international stage, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2015, 248 p. This text is the English version of Luis Velasco-Pufleau, “Musique, diplomatie et émotions”, Revue française de science politique, vol. 69, no 2, 2019, p. 115-118