Music and Politics

Series Advisory Board

André Doehring (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, AT)

Felipe Trotta (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)

James Garratt (The University of Manchester, UK)

John Street (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)

Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, IT)

Noriko Manabe (Indiana University, US)

The series aims to include a broad range of disciplines as well as inter- or transdisciplinary research addressing topics around music and politics. The series welcome scholars with a background in (ethno)musicology, popular music studies, music education, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, political science, history, and international relations, as well as further disciplines, as long as their work engages with the complex ways in which music is, and can be, political. While the primary focus of the series is on twentieth and twenty-first century music, we welcome both historical research and contemporary analyses, focusing on any musical world, geographical location or genre, from art music through folk music to mainstream pop.

Themes the series will address may include:

• music in connection with particular political discourses and ideologies such as populism, nationalism, nativism, socialism, and liberalism
• music and social or political movements
• music and international relations / diplomacy
• music and the state (cultural policies, censorship, funding)
• the political economy of music
• music and citizenship
• music and the politics of memory
• the politics of music education
• music and identity politics
• music and the politics of social in/exclusion
• music and hegemony
• music and protest
• music and propaganda
• music as political communication
• musicians as political actors
• politicians making use of music