Musical Democracy

Musical DemocracyHow music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy. Musical metaphors abound in political theory and music often accompanies political movements, yet music is seldom regarded as political communication. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy S. Love explores how music functions as metaphor and model for democracy in the work of political theorists and activist musicians. She examines deliberative democratic theorists Jrgen Habermas and John Rawls

‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that a one-dimensionally negative and inflammatory reaction contributed to the generation of ‘moral panic’ around popular music

during the Great Depression

Marilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color scholars and practitioners to make a case for ethnic studies as a path for pursuing racial justice in the field

and the difficulties caused by the Qarmatian movement are all brought to life in this volume

have forced her to face a harsh and uncertain reality

This book is a new assessment of the ideology and political program of Britain’s fascist and extreme right-wing community during the interwar period (1919–1940)

Drawing on Khalid Ikram’s extensive knowledge of economic policymaking at the highest levels

pork and chicken account for nearly three-fourths of global meat consumption

Gerrits traces how cinema invents ways of dis/connecting to the world

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for it has the potential to reveal the role of power in the construction of what is known and provide a lens for the political values at work in knowledge practices