Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century

Edited by Massimiliano Sala

Book cover: Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century

Extent: 483, 483 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Speculum musicae

Series volume number: 22

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(May 2014)

ISBN: 9782503552460

Price: $163.00

In stock

This volume investigates the relationships between music and propaganda in the twentieth-century. Music can be utilised to attribute and ascribe multivalent meanings. Due to its great evocative power, it has often been directly exploited by regimes and governments. In what ways does music convey the messages of propaganda? Which are the political and economical implications behind musical propaganda? Much has been written about the relationship between music and propaganda during the two world wars, but the post-war dimensions of the topic also require investigation.

  • Edited by Massimiliano Sala