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This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics from the eighteenth cent
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Contents: Introduction; Music and ideology: Rameau, Rousseau, and 1789, Charles B. Paul; The French musical theater: maintaining control in Caribbean colonies in the 18th-century, David M. Powers; Mozart and Freemasonry, Katharine Thomson; Beethoven’s political music, the Handelian sublime, and the aesthetics of prostration, Nicholas Mathew; Deconstructing a ’national composer': Chopin and Polish exiles in Paris, 1831-49, Jolanta T. Pekacz; On Ruslan and Russianness, Marina Frolova-Walker; Music in Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, Jess Tyre; The old lie, Glenn Watkins; The composer as intellectual: ideological inscriptions in French interwar neoclassicism, Jane F. Fulcher; The distorted sublime: music and National Socialist ideology - a sketch, Reinhold Brinkmann; What is ’Nazi music’?, Pamela M. Potter; Public lies and unspeakable truth interpreting Shostakovich’s 5th symphony, Richard Taruskin; Beyond the folk song: or, what was Hungarian Socialist Realist music?, Danielle Fosler-Lussier; Ike gets Dizzy, Penny M. Von Eschen; Born under a bad sign, Robin Denselow; Rock and the politics of memory, Simon Frith; Appropriating the master’s tools: Sun Ra, the Black Panthers and Black consciousness, 1952-1973, Daniel Kreiss; Music under Mao, its background and aftermath, Mao Yu Run; Power, authority and music in the cultures of Inner Asia, Jean During; As Plato duly warned: music, politics and social change in coastal East Africa, Kelly M. Askew; African music, ideology and utopia, Nick Nesbitt; Brechtian hip-hop: didactics and self-production in post-Gangsta political mixtapes, George Ciccariello Maher; Political music and the politics of music, Lydia Goehr; Name index.
A propos de l'auteur
Mark Carroll is Associate Professor, Elder Conservatorium and Dean (Research), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia.
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This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics from the eighteenth cent
