Music, power, and politics
Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners has been used to advance agendas of power and protest.
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415943642, 9781138870246, 0415943647, 1138870242
54079486
A censorship of forgetting : origins and origin myths of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" / Annie J. Randall
Discipline and choralism : the birth of musical colonialism / Grant Olwage
Power needs names : hegemony, folklorization, and the viejitos dance of Michoacán, Mexico / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
The power to influence minds : German folk music during the Nazi era and after / Britta Sweers
The making of a national musical icon : Xian Xinghai and his Yellow River cantata / Hon-Lun Yang
Dancing for the eternal president / Keith Howard
The power of recently revitalized Serbian rural folk music in urban settings / Jelena Jovanović
Hands off my instrument! / Helen Reddington
Barbadian tuk music : a fusion of musical cultures / Sharon Meredith
There goes the transnational neighborhood : calypso buys a bungalow / Michael Eldridge
Fighting for the right (to) party? : discursive negotiations of power in preunification East German popular music / Edward Larkey
Who's listening? / Bennett Hogg
Subversion and counter-subversion : power, control and meaning in the new Iranian pop music / Laudan Nooshin