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Book SynopsisCritical citizenship practices and the language of today''s populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today''s insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of ''flexible'' or ''differentiated'' citizenships - plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining ''the political'', its subjects, and its others on a variety of scales. They confront, too, critiques of citizenship in totalitarian or neoliberal governmentality that derive from Foucault, Agamben, and Arendt and have become pressing today in proliferating states of emergency and exception and the growing ranks of non-citizens.How should these debates be configured now? And what place does music have in them? In Music and Citizenship, author Martin Stokes argues that music has for a long time been entangled with debates about citizenship and citizenly identities, though for various reasons this entanglement has been insufficiently recognized.
Trade ReviewMartin Stokes urges us to regard citizenship as a fundamentally contested concept, whose diverse articulations are variously felt, signified, enacted, and mediated through musical practice. By surveying a wide range of theoretical perspectives, and through contemporary case studies that weave between bicycles, football crowds, and city parks, Stokes offers a landmark statement of pressing relevance to anyone concerned with music's social roles. * Robert Adlington, author of Musical Models of Democracy *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: How Musical is the Citizen? 1.1 Sly Civilities 1.2 Citizen Audience 1.3 Citizen Media 1.4 Citizen Voice 1.5 Citizen Performance 1.6 Conclusion Chapter 2. Ethnomusicology of Citizenship, Ethnomusicology as Citizenship 2.1 Identity 2.2 Technocracy 2.3 Intimacy 2.4 Conclusion Chapter 3. Citizenship Resounding 3.1 The Citizen on his Bike 3.2 The Citizen in the Crowd 3.3 The Citizen in the Square 3.4 Conclusion Chapter 4. Conclusion Bibliography Index
