Music as propaganda : art to persuade, art to control / Arnold Perris.

Author/creator Perris, Arnold
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1985.
Descriptionx, 247 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Music--Psychological aspects.
Propaganda.
Persuasion (Psychology)
Control (Psychology)
Music and state.
Music--Social aspects.

SeriesContributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 8, 0193-9041
Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 8. ^A466730
Contents Messages in the music -- People without power: musical nationalism in Europe, 1830-1920 -- Wagner, Hitler and the German "Race" -- Music for the totalitarian state: Marx, Lenin and Soviet Russia -- More totalitarian music: Confucius, Marx and Mao Zedong -- Sacred or profane: music in religion -- The hidden rostrum of opera and the Broadway musical -- The decade of protests: popular music in the 1960s -- The contemporary composer as social critic.
Abstract This book examines the past and present uses of music as a means for political and social change, overt or disguised. He presents evidence of music as propaganda ranging from Broadway to the official compositions of the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Communist China, as well as from concert halls to the protest movements of the 1960s. Familiar classics are analyzed, as well as operas of nineteenth-century nationalist composers. Shostakovich, Henze, and Penderecki, as well as Bob Dylan and many rock and roll bands are shown as composers who were adversaries of the state, while others, consciously or not, reinforced the status quo of their particular era. The sensuous encroachment of music in Western religious services is compared and contrasted with the status and use of music in Eastern religions.
Local noteLittle-251414
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 227-242) and index.
LCCN 84027969
ISBN0313245053 (lib. bdg.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3838 .P43 1985 ✔ Available Place Hold