Description Music is a complex and multi-faceted art form.
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He is the author of Daisaku Ikeda s Philosophy of Peace: Dialogue, Transformation and Global Citizenship (2010) and the editor of Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics (2008, paperback 2015) and of Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace (2013), all published by I.
About the Author Olivier Urbain is Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.
This is a vital contribution to more nuanced understandings of Music and politics.
In showing how Music has been used to challenge the status quo, as well as enforce it, the ambiguity of Music is fully revealed: it can be used to bolster both regime Power and popular liberty, often simultaneously.
They examine key topics like Music and revolution in Tunisia; the Egyptian musical tradition of the Revolutionary Song; and the ambivalent social status of the Arab musician, revered by the public when performing but also facing suspicion in a society where Music is rightly seen as dangerous and subversive.
The contributors (who include sociologists, musicologists and performers) focus above all on the relationship between Music and the political upheavals of the Arab Spring.
The chapters in this groundbreaking book explore different aspects of how Music may shape society and culture, yet go much further in viewing musical activity as a mode of Power that can transform the lives of communities and individuals.
Yet too often it is regarded as discrete and self-contained.
Description Music is a complex and multi-faceted art form
