Music Power and Politics
| Author/creator | Randall, Annie Janeiro Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge Ipswich : Ebsco Publishing [Distributor] |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Summary | Annotation Music, Power, and Politicspresents 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780203329757 |
| ISBN | 0203329759 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Stock number | 00081154 |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |