Music and the Politics of Belonging in Revolutionary Episodes
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2025

Always flowing, music is continuous, unbounded, unboundable [...] uncountable.Unlike language, music knows no impassable social barriers; being intangible and semantically ambiguous, it is the globalizable expressive substance par excellence. (Frishkopf 145)Music can be political and may thus be considered as a powerful instrument for expressing emotions, raising awareness, and inspiring change.It may shape collective memories and act as a repository for shared experiences that may foster or cha