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The Political Force of Musical Beauty (Hardcover)
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The Political Force of Musical Beauty (Hardcover)
Series: Refiguring American Music
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In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how
musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and
political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of
the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing
on the ways in which music enables the circulation of political
messages, he argues that communities grounded in the act and
experience of listening can give rise to new political ideas and
expression. Analyzing a wide range of "beautiful music" within
popular and avant-garde genres-including the Japanese traditions in
the music of Takemitsu Toru and Yoko Ono, the drone of the Velvet
Underground, and the insistence of hardcore punk and Riot grrrl
post-punk-Shank finds that when it fulfills the promise of
combining sonic and lyrical differences into a cohesive whole,
musical beauty has the power to reorganize the basis of social
relations and produce communities that recognize meaningful
difference.
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