Music and politics / John Street.

By:

Street, John, 1952- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0745635431
9780745635439
074563544X
9780745635446

Other title:

Music & politics

Subject(s):

Music -- Political aspects

DDC classification:

306.4842 23

Contents:

Introduction Making connections -- 1. Sound barriers: censoring music -- 2. Falling on deaf ears? Music policy -- 3. Striking a chord: from political communication to political representation -- 4. All together now: music as political participation -- 5. Fight the power: music as mobilisation -- 6. Invisible republics: making music, making history -- 7. Sounding good: the politics of taste -- 8. Politics as music: the sound of ideas and ideology -- 9. One more time with feeling: music as political experience -- Conclusion Repeat and fade.

Summary: "It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's political importance. But while we may share these assumptions about music's power, we rarely stop to analyse what it is about organised sound - about notes and rhythms - that has the effects attributed to it. This is the first book to examine systematically music's political power. It shows how music has been at the heart of accounts of political order, at how musicians from Bono to Lily Allen have claimed to speak for peoples and political causes. It looks too at the emergence of music as an object of public policy, whether in the classroom or in the copyright courts, whether as focus of national pride or employment opportunities. The book brings together a vast array of ideas about music's political significance (from Aristotle to Rousseau, from Adorno to Deleuze) and new empirical data to tell a story of the extraordinary potency of music across time and space. At the heart of the book lies the argument that music and politics are inseparably linked, and that each animates the other."--Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	306.4842 STR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A506599B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's political importance. But while we may share these assumptions about music's power, we rarely stop to analyse what it is about organised sound - about notes and rhythms - that has the effects attributed to it. This is the first book to examine systematically music's political power. It shows how music has been at the heart of accounts of political order, at how musicians from Bono to Lily Allen have claimed to speak for peoples and political causes. It looks too at the emergence of music as an object of public policy, whether in the classroom or in the copyright courts, whether as focus of national pride or employment opportunities. The book brings together a vast array of ideas about music's political significance (from Aristotle to Rousseau, from Adorno to Deleuze) and new empirical data to tell a story of the extraordinary potency of music across time and space. At the heart of the book lies the argument that music and politics are inseparably linked, and that each animates the other."--Publisher's website.

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