Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914 (Studies in Imperialism) - Hardcover

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Bowan, Kate; Pickering, Mr. Paul A.

 
9780719082740: Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914 (Studies in Imperialism)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719082749 ISBN 13: 9780719082740
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2017

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Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists it brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Kate Bowan is Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University

Paul Pickering is Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University



Kate Bowan is Lecturer in the Research School of Humanities and Arts at the Australian National University

Paul Pickering is Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University

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This book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance, focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future. It follows in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists – both women and men – and brings to light the importance of music-making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled and reminded; and it helps to understand better the affective register of the political and cultural life of those who composed, performed and consumed it.

Throughout the long nineteenth century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world: in the faint strains of ‘rough music’ played on the streets of Toronto and the ‘middle-brow’ performances within the walls of a secularist coven in Christchurch; in cacophonous election songs swirling around the hustings in Glasgow and Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts in the heart of radical Holborn; in defiant anthems blaring slightly out of tune on picket lines in Broken Hill and in hymns warbled by labour church choirs in Winnipeg.

The first section examines songs; the second examines music’s place in the public sphere where people – individually and collectively – made music when marching, electioneering, celebrating and commemorating, as well as striking, rioting and rebelling. The final section explores music-making within the walls of a range of associations and institutions including the difficult and often destructive part it played in European interaction with indigenous people.

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This book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance, focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future. It follows in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists both women and men and brings to light the importance of music-making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled and reminded; and it helps to understand better the affective register of the political and cultural life of those who composed, performed and consumed it. Throughout the long nineteenth century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world: in the faint strains of rough music played on the streets of Toronto and the middle-brow performances within the walls of a secularist coven in Christchurch; in cacophonous election songs swirling around the hustings in Glasgow and Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts in the heart of radical Holborn; in defiant anthems blaring slightly out of tune on picket lines in Broken Hill and in hymns warbled by labour church choirs in Winnipeg. The first section examines songs; the second examines music s place in the public sphere where people individually and collectively made music when marching, electioneering, celebrating and commemorating, as well as striking, rioting and rebelling. The final section explores music-making within the walls of a range of associations and institutions including the difficult and often destructive part it played in European interaction with indigenous people.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719082749
ISBN 13 
9780719082740
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Anzahl der Seiten
392
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