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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457426803321

Titolo

Music, power, and politics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Annie J. Randall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-94691-4

1-280-10299-3

0-203-32975-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RandallAnnie Janeiro

Disciplina

780.9

780/.9

Soggetti

Popular music - Social aspects

Folk music - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Censorship of Forgetting Origins and Origin Myths; 2 Discipline and Choralism The Birth of Musical Colonialism; 3 Power Needs Names Hegemony Folklorization; 4 The Power to Influence Minds German Folk Music; 5 The Making of a National Musical Icon Xian Xinghai; 6 Dancing for the Eternal President; 7 The Power of Recently Revitalized Serbian Rural Folk Music; 8 Hands Off My Instrument; 9 Barbadian Tuk Music A Fusion of Musical Cultures; 10 There Goes the Transnational Neighborhood

11 Fighting for the Right  to Party Discursive Negotiations12 Who's Listening; 13 Subversion and Countersubversion Power Control; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.