It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effec

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

This book discusses the political content of music over the past 200 years, from the classical to the hip-hop genres and everything in between. Beginning with B

Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placi

To date, scholars have paid little attention to the role that music played at political rallies and protests, the political activism of right-wing and left-wing