Music and Politics - A Critical Introduction

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

Table des matières

1. Music and politics: key concepts and issues; 2. Power and counterpower; 3. History, ideology and the politics of context; 4. Propaganda, ritual and sovereign power; 5. Performing protest: music and activism; 6. Critique, subversion and negation; 7. Nationalism, racism and fascism.

A propos de l'auteur

James Garratt is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester. His publications include Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner (Cambridge, 2010) and Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge, 2002).

Résumé

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous reappraisal of key concepts such as protest, resistance, power, propaganda, and ideology. This book explores and evaluates a wide range of perspectives from contemporary political theory, applying them to a broad collection of musical cultures and practices.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: James Garratt, James (University of Manchester) Garratt
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107681088
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68108-8
• Pages: 284
• Thème: Cambridge Introductions to Mus
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Histoire de la musique; MUSIC / History & Criticism, Political science & theory, Theory of music & musicology, Political science and theory, Theory of music and musicology