The Library of Essays on Music, Politics and Society
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Series Editor: Mark Carroll, Elder Conservatorium of Music,
University of Adelaide, Australia
Like all fields of creative endeavour, music has long been
caught up - voluntarily and otherwise - in matters political. Music
has been used and abused, claimed and disowned, for propaganda
purposes, as a vehicle for protest, as a means of articulating
national, racial and sexual identities, and in the name of
religious, courtly, party political, and commercial
imperatives.
Scholarly interest in the political dimensions of music and
music making has increased greatly in recent decades to the point
where a consolidated overview has become indispensable to
furthering our understanding of the forces at play. This timely
four volume series brings together classic essays addressing the
intersection of music and politics, in the broad sense of the word,
written by leading international scholars over the past few
decades. The essays, which encompass art and vernacular musics in
western and non-western cultures, ancient and modern, are grouped
together under the volume headings of patronage: by governments,
religious and aristocratic courts, and commerce; ideology:
political, nationalist and points in between; protest: in western
and non-western societies, and encompassing political, racial,
gender and environmental causes; and identity politics: gender and
sexuality, race, and social stratification. Each volume is edited
by a recognized authority in their field, and includes a select
bibliography and an introduction which offers an authoritative
overview of research in the area.
This four-volume series offers a significant benefit to
students, lecturers and libraries as it brings together leading
articles in the field from disparate journals which are often
difficult to locate and of limited access. Students are thus able
to study leading articles side by side for comparison whilst
lecturers are provided with an invaluable ‘one-stop’ teaching
resource.
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