EAN: 9783868218114

WHATS GOING ON - WILFRIED RAUSSERT KARTONIERT (TB)

This book begins from the premise that we are living in an age in which the social is in a
continuous process of reinvention. The book is also grounded in the assumption that music is a
perennial key player in the processes of reinventing the social since music holds the power to
stimulate and transport visions of change through its appeal to all human senses. Chapters
address the intersection of music and identity politics  the role of music in social movements
music's presence in commodity and tourist culture  music in the context of museum culture 
music's presence in literature and the visual arts  and music documentaries as alternative
sonic historiography. The intention behind this book is to open the reader's eyes to music's
omnipresence in our social life beyond the muzak sound in shopping malls  the background music
in bars and restaurants  and the spatially marked distance of music from the audience in
exclusive concert halls. It further wants to illustrate how music from the Americas keeps
reinventing the social within and beyond the American hemisphere.

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