Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action
"A highly readable, innovative investigation of the potential political implications of popular music." --Edward Bryan Portis, Texas A&M; University"Political science has too often ignored the critical political dimensions of music in social life. Now Mark Mattern has given us a groundbreaking examination of the varied political functions of populist musics-from social glue to social dynamite-as reflected in three fascinating, diverse, and disenfranchised case-study communities. Acting in Concert is, truly, music to intellectual ears." --George H . Lewis, author ofSide Saddle on the Golden Calf: Social Structure and Popular Culture in AmericaandAll That Glitters: Country Music in America