Music and power
By: Roger Evans
Publisher: Roger Evans
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781503367142
Subjects: Social aspects; History and criticism; Music
Description: "A discussion of the nature of the musical occasion at crucial points in history"--from author's web site.
Notes: At end: 24476829R00078.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : to a way of looking at music in life, and at life through music; title: A European music is imposed : when Charlemagne's vision for Europe takes a musical form; title: An interlude for rebirth : to set the stage for a very new scene; title: Musician as force and monument : as Handel pursues an unprecedented career in a nation of shopkeepers; title: Musician as cause : in a Wagnerian revolution; title: Thinking through music history : from a pan-cultural point of view; title: Two houses of music : whose stylistic differences are not all audible; title: A new kind of empire : wherein African American music witnesses to old musical values.