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- English
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Music, Power, and Politics
About this book
Music, Power, and Politics presents sixteen different cultural perspectives on the concept of music as a site of socio-political struggle. 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. The essays included examine: music used to convey political ideology in Nazi Germany, apartheid-era South Africa, and modern-day North Korea postcolonial musical efforts to reclaim ethnic heritage in Serbia and the Caribbean music as a means of establishing new cultural identities for recently empowered social groups in the UK and Brazil the subversion of racial stereotypes through popular music in the USA music as a tool of popular resistance to oppressive government policies in modern day Iran and the Bolivian Andes
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 A Censorship of Forgetting: Origins and Origin Myths of âBattle Hymn of the Republicâ
- CHAPTER 2 Discipline and Choralism: The Birth of Musical Colonialism
- CHAPTER 3 Power Needs Names: Hegemony, Folklorization, and the Viejitos Dance of MichoacĂĄn, Mexico
- CHAPTER 4 The Power to Influence Minds: German Folk Music during the Nazi Era And After
- CHAPTER 5 The Making of a National Musical Icon: Xian Xinghai And His Yellow River Cantata
- CHAPTER 6 Dancing for the Eternal President
- CHAPTER 7 The Power of Recently Revitalized Serbian Rural Folk Music in Urban Settings
- CHAPTER 8 Hands Off My Instrument!
- CHAPTER 9 Barbadian Tuk MusicâA Fusion of Musical Cultures
- CHAPTER 10 There Goes the Transnational Neighborhood: Calypso Buys a Bungalow
- CHAPTER 11 Fighting for the Right (to) Party? Discursive Negotiations of Power in Preunification East German Popular Music
- CHAPTER 12 Whoâs Listening?
- CHAPTER 13 Subversion and Countersubversion: Power, Control, and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music
- Contributors
- Index