Music, power, and politics / edited by Annie J. Randall. - viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A censorship of forgetting : origins and origin myths of "battle hymn of the republic" / Discipline and choralism : the birth of musical colonialism / Power needs names : hegemony, folklorization, and the Viejitos dance of Michoacan, Mexico / The power to influence minds : German folk music during the Nazi era and after / The making of a national musical icon : Xian Xinghai and his Yellow River Cantata / Dancing for the eternal president / The power of recently revitalized Serbian rural folk music in urban settings / Hands off my instrument! / Barbadian Tuk music - a fusion of musical cultures / There goes the transnational neighborhood : calypso buys a bungalow / Fighting for the right (to) party? Discursive negotiations of power in preunification East German popular music / Who's listening? / Subversion and countersubversion : power, control, and meaning in the new Iranian pop music / Annie J. Randall -- Grant Olwage -- Ruth Hellier-Tinoco -- Britta Sweers -- Hon-Lun Yang -- Keith Howard -- Jelena Jovanovic -- Helen Reddington -- Sharon Meredith -- Michael Eldridge -- Edward Larkey -- Bennett Hogg -- Laudan Nooshin. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Popular music--Social aspects
Folk music--Social aspects

ML3470 / .M893 2005

780.9