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Jessica Gienow-Hecht<\/a> has won a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to pursue a project titled \u201cThe Quest for Harmony: Classical Music, Emotion, and the Discourse of Human Rights in the United States since World War Two<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

How do human rights and classical music relate to one another? What does it mean that\u00a0since World War Two, hundreds of artists have cited the\u00a0\u201cuniversalism\u201d of music to lobby for\u00a0justice, freedom and human rights? Specifically, which role has the U.S. classical music scene played in this scenario?\u00a0Jessica Gienow-Hecht has won a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to pursue a project titled \u201cThe Quest for Harmony: Classical Music, Emotion, and the Discourse of Human Rights in the United States since World War Two.\u201d\u00a0It will investigate the relationship between classical music and human rights in the post-World War II period. Combining a variety fields including law, emotions, classical art-music, cultural diplomacy and the history of U.S. foreign relations, the project seeks to make sense of the increasing engagement of U.S. symphony orchestras and international artists for the sake of human rights.<\/p>\n