Technology has allowed us to go from records, to cassette tapes, to CDs, and from CDs, now we have the most common .MP3 file type, which we can store on many of our devices. Not to mention the internet and websites such as You Tube, Sound cloud, Spo ti fy, etc. has allowed music to be shared in many ways!
In 1215, a band of rebellious medieval barons forced King John of England to agree to a laundry list of concessions later called the Great Charter, or in Latin, Magna Carta. Centuries later, America’s Founding Fathers took great inspiration from this medieval pact as they forged the nation’s founding documents—including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For 18th-century political thinkers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Magna Carta was a potent symbol of liberty and the natural rights of man against an oppressive or unjust government. The Founding Fathers’ reverence for Magna Carta had less to do with the actual text of the document, which is mired in medieval law and outdated customs, than what it represented—an ancient pact safeguarding individual liberty.
“For early Americans, Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence were verbal representations of what liberty was and what government should be—protecting people rather than oppressing them,” says John Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Much in the same way that for the past 100 years the Statue of Liberty has been a visual representation of freedom, liberty, prosperity and welcoming.”
When the First Continental Congress met in 1774 to draft a Declaration of Rights and Grievances against King George III, they asserted that the rights of the English colonists to life, liberty and property were guaranteed by “the principles of the English constitution,” a.k.a. Magna Carta. On the title page of the 1774 Journal of The Proceedings of The Continental Congress is an image of 12 arms grasping a column on whose base is written “Magna Carta.
The correct answer is: "increasing understanding of American values and creating a receptive international environment".
In the 1950s international tensions shaped the emergence of two that two confronted blocs in the global sphere: the Western bloc leaded in the US and constituted by the capitalist countries under its influence and the Eastern bloc leaded by the URSS and constituted by the communist countries under its influence.
Together with the containment strategy against communism, the US aimed to spread the American values and way of life worldwide, even within the Eastern Bloc, organizing events with US jazz players in its capital Moscow. The intention was to show, in the heart of the URSS, how the American model that they critized so much was not that bad if, for example, it was producing such good quality music.
