Music and Politics

Music and Politics
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Publisher : Polity
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9780745635439
ISBN-13 : 0745635431
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Book Synopsis Music and Politics by : John Street

Download or read book Music and Politics written by John Street and published by Polity. This book was released on 2012 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines music's political power. It shows how music has been at the heart of accounts of political order, how musicians from Bono to Blue have claimed to speak for peoples and political causes. It looks at the emergence of music as an object of public policy, in the classroom or in the copyright courts, as the focus of national pride or employment opportunities. The book brings together ideas about music's political significance (from Aristotle to Rousseau, to Adorno and beyond) to tell of the extraordinary potency of music across time and space. At its heart lies the argument that music and politics are inseparably linked, and that each animates the other"--Back cover.


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