Music and Democracy - Music and Democracy Kartoniert (TB)

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-po litical realities. The volume further features approaches in the fields of gender migration disability and digitalization.