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Abstract / Summary

Music connects. People make music with or for their families, friends, and loved ones; for people who share their love for dance, for sports, or for a particular direction in politics. They play or sing to potential mates, to lovers, to colleagues; to people they want to reach across the room, the village square, the sports stadium, across valleys or oceans. People gather to sing or play to their god or gods, to spirits, to animals, to their ancestors, their ancestral grounds, or to their country. They make music speak to the people they respect and want to honor, but also to those they see as enemies or rivals, to those they despise or those they want to change. They can do so in their living rooms, in the streets, on stages, or online for the world to see, with an audience of none, or of millions. The effects of these acts of music--often in combination with other forces--can range from unnoticeable to transformational, from an intimate personal expression to a catalyst for a revolution.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Author

Huib Schippers, fl. 1986

Content Type

Essay

Duration

0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Page Count

4

Publication Year

2021

Subject

Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, Music and Social Change, Political demonstrations, Social movements, Music, Politics & Policy, Sociology, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos