Politics in music
Subtitle: music and political transformation from Beethoven to hip-hop
By: Courtney Brown
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farsight Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780976676232
Subjects: Music; Political aspects; Political science; Musik; Politiska aspekter
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Music as a Conveyor of Political Messages ; Representational vs. Associational Music ; Orientation; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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); title: 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; title: 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; title: Chapter 8. Political Music and the Transformation of Civilization ; The Underground ; The Future of Political Music.