Caroline Rae
Ashgate
Hardback
150
This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range of musical genres and countries. Important topics covered include: music censorship, the use of music to express resistance to authority, the relationship of music with social stratification, the situation of women with regard to music within Islamic and Jewish societies and the use of music in adopting political positions. In considering such countries as Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Kashmir, Saudi Arabia and Tajikestan it is possible to discover how and why the various discourses about music serve as a means of social control or contestation. The book draws on a wide range of relevant theoretical and critical ideas, and many disciplines including ethnomusicology, anthropology, politics, Middle Eastern studies and cultural and media studies.
Ashgate
Hardback
150
This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range of musical genres and countries. Important topics covered include: music censorship, the use of music to express resistance to authority, the relationship of music with social stratification, the situation of women with regard to music within Islamic and Jewish societies and the use of music in adopting political positions. In considering such countries as Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Kashmir, Saudi Arabia and Tajikestan it is possible to discover how and why the various discourses about music serve as a means of social control or contestation. The book draws on a wide range of relevant theoretical and critical ideas, and many disciplines including ethnomusicology, anthropology, politics, Middle Eastern studies and cultural and media studies.