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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.
Print Book, English, 2005
Routledge, New York, 2005
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