| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A censorship of forgetting : origins and origin myths of Battle hymn of the republic / Annie J. Randall -- Discipline and choralism : the birth of musical colonialism / G. Olwage -- Power needs names : hegemony, folklorization, and the viejitos dance of Michoacán, Mexico / R. Hellier-Tinoco -- The power to influence minds : German folk music during the Nazi era and after / B. Sweers -- The making of a national musical icon : Xian Xinghai and his Yellow River cantata / Hon-Lun Yang -- Dancing for the eternal president / K. Howard -- Después de 500 años : the role of saya in Bolivia's black cultural movement / R.W. Templeman -- The power of recently revitalized Serbian rural folk music in urban settings / J. Jovanovic -- Hands off my instrument! / H. Reddington -- Barbadian tuk music, a fusion of musical cultures / S. Meredith -- There goes the transnational neighborhood : calypso buys a bungalow / M. Eldridge -- Fighting for the right (to) party? : discursive negotiations of power in pre-unification East German popular music / E. Larkey -- Who's listening? / B. Hogg -- Subversion and counter-subversion : power, control and meaning in the new Iranian pop music / L. Nooshin |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Social aspects
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Folk music -- Social aspects
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MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
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Folk music -- Social aspects
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Popular music -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Randall, Annie Janeiro
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| ISBN |
0203329759 |
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9780203329757 |
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9780415943642 |
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0415943647 |
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9786610102990 |
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6610102996 |
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