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Politics in music : music and political transformation from Beethoven to hip-hop /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Atlanta, Ga. :
Farsight Press,
c2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Music as a conveyor of political messages ; Representational vs. associational music ; Orientation
- Chapter 2. Beethoven. Beethoven's music and his contemporary political environment ; The re-invention of Beethoven during the Second Reich ; Beethoven and the Weimar Republic ; Beethoven and the Nazi Peril ; Post World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Chapter 3. Political manifesto music: the cases of Bob Marley and Richard Wagner ; Robert Nesta Marley ; A prelude to Wagner ; The essential plot and allegory of the "Ring" operas ; Alberich, Wotan, and the Babylon System ; Life without Fear, Siegfried, and the Rastas ; The connection between love and revolution ; Love as an engine of political change
- Chapter 4. Nationalist and patriotic music ; The period of European nation-building ; Italian nationalism ; Russian nationalism ; Finnish nationalism: a nation musically transformed; Spanish nationalism ; Musical nationalism in England ; American nationalism ; Modern nationalist hybrids ; Nationalist and patriotic elements in American country music ; National anthems and pseudo anthems ; The psychology of nationalist and patriotic music
- Chapter 5: Industrialization and the emergence of labor music ; A Selection of Songs by Joe Hill ; "The Preacher and the Slave" by Joe Hill (1911) ; "The Rebel Girl" by Joe Hill (1914-5) ; "Casey Jones--The Union Scab" by Joe Hill (1912) ; "Down in the Old Dark Mills" by Joe Hill (1913) ; "Everybody's Joining It" by Joe Hill (1911) ; "There is Power in a Union" by Joe Hill (1913) ; "Workers of the World, Awaken" by Joe Hill (1914) ; "The White Slave" by Joe Hill (1912) ; "Stung Right" by Joe Hill (1913) ; "Should I Ever Be a Soldier" by Joe Hill (1913) ; The Subsequent Labor Music Inspired by Joe Hill ; "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" by Alfred Hays (1925)
- Chapter 6. Protest music: movement and non-movement motivations ; The Vietnam War and its effect on the development of protest music ; Protest music of the late 1960s and early 1970s ; Comic satire: ; Calls for peace, and warnings against taking protest "Too Far"; Psychological portraits of profound and personal inner conflict: ; The fusion of political and spiritual change: ; Protest music and other wars: The Chilean and Northern Ireland cases; Protest music with non-movement motivations
- Chapter 7. Politics and hip-hop ; The emergence of socially relevant hip-hop ; The radicalization of political hip-hop rhetoric ; Class warfare and the rise of Ghetto-centric gangsta rap ; The transformation of hip-hop into a vehicle for white rebellion
- Chapter 8. Political music and the transformation of civilization ; The underground ; The future of political music.