Breaking the Silence: Music's Role in Political Thought and Action
20 Sep 2007-Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (Routledge)-Vol. 10, Iss: 3, pp 321-337
TL;DR: This paper explored the connection between politics and music and proposed a framework to make sense of, and give due weight to, the place of music as organised sound in political thought and action.
Abstract: This article explores the connection between politics and music; in particular it asks how music might be incorporated into accounts of political thought and action. Despite the fact that political science has tended to neglect the place of music in politics, there are a number of writers, such as Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, who have taken a different course. For them, music is intimately linked, via its aesthetics, to ethical judgements and to social order. The article develops these latter claims and connects them to work of a similar kind in music studies to propose a framework which helps to make sense of, and give due weight to, the place of music – as organised sound – in political thought and action. Music, it is argued, should not be viewed just as a footnote to, or appendage of, political thought and action, but rather as an integral feature of them.
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...Drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari (1987), she wants to see chants and refrains as giving ‘sensory access to the cosmological … dimension of things’ (Bennett 2001: 166)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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...Benedict Anderson echoes this argument when he describes the singing national anthems as ‘occasions for unisonality, for the echoed physical realization of the imagined community’ (Anderson 1983: 132; emphasis added)....
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Abstract: The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies.
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...This theoretical insight is given empirical flesh by those, like Tia DeNora (2000), who show how music serves to constitute political identities, and those who demonstrate how different sounds can appear to produce different social behaviour or political values (Hallam 2001 reports on over 200…...
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...This theoretical insight is given empirical flesh by those, like Tia DeNora (2000), who show how music serves to constitute political identities, and those who demonstrate how different sounds can appear to produce different social behaviour or political values (Hallam 2001 reports on over 200 examples)....
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