Search Results for: World Music Politics And Social Change

Twelve essays study the commercialization of ethnic music for markets in the developed world, and the impact on local music and performers in the third world. D

The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.

In 'Music as Social Life', Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the centre of our most profound personal and social experiences

Style-based subcultures, scenes and tribes have pulsated through the history of social, economic and political change. From 1940s zoot-suiters and hepcats; thro

Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political up