Harm Langenkamp
Institute for Cultural Research (ICON) - Musicology
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Harm Langenkamp studied Musicology and Cultural History, and obtained the doctoral degree at Utrecht University. His education and research focuses primarily on the involvement of music and opera in processes of collective identity formation on the Eurasian continent of the late eighteenth century to the present. Supported by a Top Language Exhibition of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Langenkamp completed a doctoral research into the musical activities of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an association of artists and intellectuals founded in 1950 (with the support of the CIA) in response to the successful Soviet peacekeeping campaigns. He currently edits his dissertation to a publication under the provisional title Cosmopolitan Counterpoint: Overt and Covert Musical Warfare and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War , 1945-1961.
Research Interest
Music and (Cold War) politics and diplomacy; music and postcolonial theory theory; opera
Publications
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Langenkamp, ​​Harm (02-03-2013). Discordant Globalities - Interpreting Musical Diplomacy along the "New Silk Road" .
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Langenkamp, ​​HJM (19-12-2014). Cosmopolitan Counterpoint - Overt and Covert Musical Warfare and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War, 1945-1961 . (546 p.).
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Langenkamp, ​​Harm (2014). Conflicting Dreams of Global Harmony in US-PRC Silk Road Diplomacy. In Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto & Damien Mahiet (Ed.), Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present (pp. 83-100) (18 p.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
