Music, Power, and Politics
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| Management number | 231667304 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $18.40 | Model Number | 231667304 | ||
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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 Read more
| ISBN10 | 1138870242 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1138870246 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Dimensions | 5.98 x 0.67 x 9.02 inches |
| Item Weight | 15.2 ounces |
| Print length | 296 pages |
| Publication date | June 12, 2015 |
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