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Music and Solidarity - Questions of Universality, Consciousness, and Connection (Hardcover)
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Music and Solidarity - Questions of Universality, Consciousness, and Connection (Hardcover)
Series: Peace and Policy
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The philosopher Christopher Small suggests that musical meanings
are concerned with relationships, both with other human beings and
with the world, and that music functions as a means of exploration,
affirmation, and celebration of those relationships. If members of
different social groups have different values, or different
concepts of ideal relationships, then the kinds of performances
that enact those relationships will differ from one another. Using
music to express benevolent intentions is not, in general, one of
its most obvious functions. In fact, military music has been used
throughout history to destroy cross-cultural communion. Music is
also a powerful and ubiquitous tool in propaganda, and in
facilitating various political projects in all kinds of inventive
ways that have nothing much to do with the pursuit of peaceful and
cooperative intercultural understanding, or with helping people
address issues of injustice. This text moves far beyond the
knowledge of music's power upon humans, however this may be
conceived and explained. It addresses a field of inquiry that is
still a tiny endeavor, at least in comparison with all other
academic efforts in the world. The sparseness of serious
theoretical engagement with the topic of music's potential role in
the area of peace and policy is echoed by how little music is
directly used in the "real world" for building a more humane
consciousness. Finding ways to that goal is the purpose of this
work.
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