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Finding Democracy in Music (Hardcover)
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Finding Democracy in Music (Hardcover)
Series: Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century
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For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled
musicians' imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music's proven
capacity to contribute to specific political causes, musicians have
explored how aspects of their practice embody democratic
principles. This may involve adopting particular approaches to
compositional material, performance practice, relationships to
audiences, or modes of dissemination and distribution. Finding
Democracy in Music is the first study to offer a wide-ranging
investigation of ways in which democracy may thus be found in
music. A guiding theme of the volume is that this takes place in a
plurality of ways, depending upon the perspective taken to music's
manifold relationships, and the idea of democracy being
entertained. Contributing authors explore various genres including
orchestral composition, jazz, the post-war avant-garde, online
performance, and contemporary popular music, as well as employing a
wide array of theoretical, archival, and ethnographic
methodologies. Particular attention is given to the contested
nature of democracy as a category, and the gaps that frequently
arise between utopian aspiration and reality. In so doing, the
volume interrogates a key way in which music helps to articulate
and shape our social lives and our politics.
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