Music, Power, and Politics [Paperback]

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 AndesINTRODUCTION
Annie J. Randall
CHAPTER 1
A Censorship of Forgetting: Origins and Origin Myths of Battle Hymn of the Republic
Annie J. Randall
CHAPTER 2
Discipline and Choralism: The Birth of Musical Colonialism
Grant Olwage
CHAPTER 3
Power Needs Names: Hegemony, Folklorization, and the Viejitos Dance of Michoac?n, Mexico
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
CHAPTER 4
The Power to Influence Minds: German Folk Music During the Nazi Era and After
Britta Sweers
CHAPTER 5
The Making of a National Musical Icon: Xian Xinghai and his Yellow River Cantata
Hon-Lun Yang
CHAPTER 6
Dancing for the Eternal President
Keith Howard
CHAPTER 7
Despu?s de 500 A?os [After 500 Years]: The Role of Saya in Bolivia's Black Cultural Movement
Robert W. Templeman
CHAPTER 8
The Power of Recently Revitalized Serbian Rural Folk Music in Urban Settings
Jelena Jovanovic
CHAPTER 9
Hands off my instrument!
Helen Reddington
CHAPTER 10
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