Music, Power, and Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415943642)

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

Author: Annie J. Randall
ISBN-10: 0415943647
ISBN-13: 9780415943642
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2004
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.04w x 0.94d