Music and the Aura of Revolution

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8965068
AutoresMark Levine (0000-0002-3682-711X, Lund University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas794-797
Fecha de publicación2012-10-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002074381200092x
OpenAlexW2114453985
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas4

It has become something of a commonplace to argue that music played an important role in the revolutionary upheavals that overthrew the Bin ʿAli regime in Tunisia and forced Husni Mubarak from power in Egypt. This recognition let the larger scholarly community—indeed, the world—in on a secret that a small group of MENA scholars have for decades been trying to share: it's not merely that music is society, as Jonathan Shannon argues in his contribution to this roundtable; it's society in “Real 3D,” at once a microcosm, mirror, and prism of “all the social forces and contradictions of culture, politics, and history.” As a mirror, music reflects society's contending forces back onto itself. Under the right conditions it also refracts them prismatically, acting as a filter and an amplifier that brings (and sometimes forces) subaltern sentiments into the public consciousness. Music, like other art forms, can help foster and sustain social and political change

Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prism · Sociology · Subaltern · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy