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This book provides insights into how individuals and groups use music to bring about social change. The contributors examine cases from the promise and myth of democratization through music technol...
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  • 27 November 2021
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Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music technology to the use of music in imposing authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas in the past and present up to music's impact on political systems, governmental representation, and socio-political realities. The volume further features approaches in the fields of gender, migration, disability, and digitalization.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: mdwPress
Publication Date: 27 November 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837656572
Format: Paperback
BISACs: MUSIC / History & Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
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»Während nicht wenige wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu diesem Bereich eine nicht zu übersehende befürwortende oder kritisch-ablehnende Haltung einnehmen, ist Dražićs Darstellung keineswegs tendenziös, sondern durch einen breiten Horizont gekennzeichnet, aufbauend auf einem sehr überzeugend eingesetzten theoretischen Werkzeugkasten (diskursanalytische Konzepte, Kontextanalyse, Beschreibungsmodelle sozialer Einheiten). […] Ein sehr empfehlenswertes Buch! «

»Whilst quite a few academic works in this field adopt a clearly supportive or critically dismissive stance, Dražić’s account is by no means biased, but is characterised by a broad perspective, drawing on a very convincingly applied theoretical toolkit (discourse-analytical concepts, contextual analysis, descriptive models of social units). […] A highly recommended book! « (translated from German)

Marko Kölbl (PhD) is an ethnomusicologist and senior scientist at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is specialized in music and dance of minorities and migrant communities with an interest in intersectional, queer-feminist, and postcolonial perspectives.
Fritz Trümpi (Dr. phil.) is a musicologist and associate professor at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies at mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His research focuses on the history of music industries and musicians' organisations, music & politics, and music culture(s) of the late Habsburg Empire and its successor states.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Ambivalences in Music and Democracy: Introductory Remarks 7
Entrepreneurial Tapists 19
New Model, Same Old Stories? 61
The National Society of Music (1915-1922) and the Ambivalent Democratization of Music in Spain 87
Verdi at the Heart of the Dictatorship 107
The Intervision Song Contest 141
"Vodka, Beer, Papirosy" 157
Disembodiment and South Asian Performance Cultures 175
Music Activism in Serbia at the Turn of the Millennium 203
Expanding Musical Inclusivity 235
About mdwPress 267