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This book is not about music or politics. It is about the 'and' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How have the relationships between music and politics changed over time and across cultures, and are the familiar tools we use in dealing with them fit for purpose? This book overhauls our understanding of how these fields interact, offering a rigorous reappraisal of key concepts such as power, protest, resistance, subversion, propaganda, and ideology. It explores and evaluates a wide range of perspectives from contemporary political theory, engaging with an array of musical cultures and practices from medieval chant to rap. In addition, it discusses current ways in which the relationships between music and politics are being reconfigured and reconceptualised. Where else can you find Donald Trump, Kendrick Lamar and Beethoven under one cover?

Decolonizing the ear : the transcolonial reverberations of vernacular phonograph music / Michael Denning -- Smoking hot : cigarettes, jazz, and the production of global imaginaries in interwar Shanghai / Nan Enstad -- Circuit listening : Grace Chang and the dawn of the Chinese 1960s / Andrew F. Jones -- The Aesthetics of Allá : listening like a sonidero / Josh Kun -- Sound legacy : Elsie Houston / Micol Seigel -- Imperial aurality : jazz, the archive, and U.S. empire / Jairo Moreno -- Where they came from : reracializing music in the empire of silence / Philip V. Bohlman -- Di eagle and di bear : who gets to tell the story of the Cold War? / Penny Von Eschen -- Currents of revolutionary confluence : a view from Cuba's hip hop festival / Marc Perry -- Tango as intangible cultural heritage : development, diversity, and the values of music in Buenos Aires / Morgan James Luker -- Musical economies of the elusive metropolis / Gavin Steingo -- The sound of anticolonialism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Rap, race, revolution : post-9/11 Brown and a hip hop critique of empire / Nitasha Sharma -- Echo and anthem : representing sound, music, and difference in two colonial modern novels / Amanda Weidman -- Tonality as a colonizing force in Africa / Kofi Agawu

AbstractPopular music has a long and varied association with politics. It has provided the soundtrack to political protest and been the object of political censorship; politicians have courted pop stars and pop stars — like Bono of U2 — have acted as politicians. But although these more familiar aspects of pop's connections to politics have been noted in passing, they have not received a great deal of academic attention, and there are other aspects of the relationship — the state's role as sponsor of popular music, for instance — which have been largely ignored. This article explores the various dimensions of the interaction between popular music and politics, and argues that the study of music can contribute to our understanding of political thought and action.