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Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914
Kate Bowan
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Description for Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914
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Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, ... Read more
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719082740
SKU
V9780719082740
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About Kate Bowan
Kate Bowan is Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University Paul Pickering is Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University -- .
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