Music Power and Politics - RANDALL,A

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

TITLE: Music Power and Politics

AUTHOR: RANDALL,A

SKU: 9781138870246

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 27/02/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 296

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 152 mm x 229 mm

WEIGHT: 408 gr