US Cultural Diplomacy
The Cold War was the heyday of state-orchestrated cultural diplomacy in the U.S., at a time when many...
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Les années yéyé : des chansons américaines sous-titrées ?
Au début des années 1960, les chansons yéyé sont réputées responsables d'une irruption massive de...
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Artes escénicas
La sección Artes escénicas reúne artículos sobre la circulación transatlántica de objetos, de...
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“C’era un Ragazzo...Era un muchacho...Era um garoto...”: uma balada pop italiana e seus ecos...
“C’era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones” gravada originalmente em italiano,...
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Le revival de la musique bretonne : une déclinaison locale des contre-cultures américaines
Au tournant des années des années 1960 et 1970, un mouvement revivaliste a produit en Bretagne ce que...
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Sport
Considered from the point of view of sport during a long twentieth century, the Atlantic space shows...
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Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else
The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...
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Hitchcock, an Englishman in Hollywood
Alfred Hitchcock's entire career was transatlantic. After fulfilling his dream of accessing Hollywood’...
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Levitt-villes in France
In 1965, William Levitt, America’s largest home builder and creator of the famous Levittowns,...
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Le théâtre communautaire argentin : réseaux et circulations
Le mouvement du théâtre communautaire argentin, né dans les années 1980, est aujourd’hui une référence...
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Soupault and USA: cinema and Surrealist poetry in the Roaring Twenties
In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...
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Americanization through the Arts
This collection focuses on analyses of artworks and brings together articles that examine the...
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Can one « jazz » the French language ?
The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...
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Ray Ventura and His Collegians: from imitation to a Franco-American hybrid
In the early 1930s, Ray Ventura and His Collegians recorded in Paris covers of hit songs from...
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Blanche and Alfred Knopf: circulating transatlantic literature
In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...
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Curating the Black Atlantic: An Overview of Exhibitions, 1989-2022
As the follow-on from a class project, this article presents a critical history of art exhibitions on...
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Transatlântico
Mesmo em um cenário historiográfico dominado por olhares globais, o interesse no Atlântico persiste –...
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Cultural Diplomacy from Propaganda to Soft Power
Either directly or through the non-governmental institutions and actors, states have also played a...
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Ray Ventura, jazz and French chanson: an ambiguous Americanization
In the 1930s, Ray Ventura and his Collégiens established themselves as a model of French chanson,...
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The Transatlantic Ballad of Alan Lomax
Studying vocal performance styles during his time in Europe during the 1950s, the US ethnomusicologist...
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Liberalism and the Atlantic World
Liberalism can be considered the first truly Atlantic ideology, in spite of undeniable national...
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The “Sensation” exhibition (London 1997-New York 2000): public scandals, private funding
When the “Sensation” exhibition travelled from London to New York in 1999, it seemed as though young...
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Johnny Weissmuller
From swimming pools (five Olympic gold medals) to Hollywood, including his appearance in Tarzan,...
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Littérature
Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...
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European research in Kodak’s early years
For nearly a century, knowledge management by the Kodak company relied on the circulation of...
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Vienna to San Francisco via Chicago: Camera Club Exchanges in the 1890s
Elitist organizations such as the Linked Ring Brotherhood and the Photo-Secession were not the only...
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Fonografia digital e circulação musical transatlântica
O artigo apresenta os principais processos envolvidos na produção e circulação da música gravada...
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Boxing
Boxing is a major modern sport. Codified in England at the end of the eighteenth century, it became a...
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Periodizing the Atlantic
A major challenge for the Transatlantic Cultures project has been creating a historical periodization...
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Les Strakosch, les Maretzek et les Grau : imprésarios moraves à New York
L’histoire du concert américain s'inscrit dans l'histoire des migrations. Vers 1850, de jeunes...
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Gordon Parks
Cet article s'intéresse aux tensions générées par la position de Gordon Parks (1912-2006) : un...
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Transatlantic Cartographies of Popular Music in the Americas
Popular music is frequently analyzed through national ‘musical genres,’ consecrated through specific...
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Transatlantic operatic networks during the nineteenth century
This article explores operatic networks in the nineteenth century, with a focus on mobility between...
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Music
Between the 18th and the 21st centuries, the musical transatlantic space has profoundly changed,...
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The American Century
In 1941, the influential publisher Henry Luce declared the century “American.” The United States’ new...
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Cinema
The section approaches the historical and cultural practices that involve cinema in the transatlantic...
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United States Information Agency
En 1953, la guerre froide pousse le président Eisenhower à créer une agence indépendante du...
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Visual Arts
In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the...
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New Harmony : Owen et Pestalozzi aux États-Unis
La colonie de New Harmony (États-Unis) fut, dans les années 1820, le théâtre d’une expérience sociale...
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Memories
Transatlantic memory and heritage evoke a permanent oscillation between universal and specific values,...
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Revista Cine Cubano
A revista Cine Cubano, criada em 1960, promoveu por mais de quatro décadas a circulação de notícias e...
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Disaster and Progress in Cultural Representations of the Titanic
This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Titanic disaster in 1912 in literature, art, cinema, and...
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From Europe to Hollywood, and back. The Classic Hollywood Film Score
How did migrations of composers from Central and Eastern Europe to the United States shape the sound...
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Nineteenth-Century Scientific Expeditions of the US Navy
Scientific exchanges reigned in the nineteenth century and were indispensable to the process of...
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The Transatlantic Voyages of Chris Marker
This article studies transatlantic networks established by film director Chris Marker. Whereas it...
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Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz
The article investigates the phenomenon of Bossa Nova, its most relevant aesthetic traces and the...
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Cycling Across the Atlantic: A discussion of cycling culture in the Atlantic Region
Cycling has gone through standardization and modernization processes that have functionally brought...
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Artistic Education and Artist Training
The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...
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Was “American” Photography a European Invention?
This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...
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Luigi Nono: Revolutionary Experiences and American Networks
During his travels in Latin America and the United States, the composer and Communist activist Luigi...
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Intellectuals
This section examines how the movements of thinkers and ideas around the Atlantic basin produced...