Music, Power, and Politics
Author | : Annie J. Randall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2004-12-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135946906 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135946906 |
Rating | : 4/5 (906 Downloads) |
Download or read book Music, Power, and Politics written by Annie J. Randall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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