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The Revolution’s Echoes
Nomi Dave
其他書名
Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2019-10-02
主題
Music / General
Music / Ethnomusicology
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
022665463X
9780226654638
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VcmrDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in
The Revolution’s Echoes
, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be.
Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With
The Revolution’s Echoes
, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.