Part I : A citizen diplomat prepares. Introduction ; Copland and the beginnings of U.S. cultural diplomacy ; Copland as good neighbor : A musical diplomat and the OIAA
Part II : Copland, Latin America, and World War II. Diplomat "in the field" ; Copland in Argentina ; Copland in Brazil ; Copland in Chile ; "The fiery trial through which we pass" : The Americas at war
Part III : Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar. Copland, Latin America, and the early Cold War ; Shifting ground : Copland, Latin America, and the crisis of modernism ; A "living refutation to Communist-inspired lies" : Copland in Latin America in the sixties ; Latin American classical music and memory.