Music and politics (2004)

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

13 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/16/2009

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Arts and art history

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Summary :

Introduction.
The use of music in politics.
1. Music as a means to gather.
2. Music as a means to exist.
3. Music as a way to control ideas.
Subversive music.
1. Different kind of subversive music.
2. Rock music.
3. Jazz.
4. Hip Hop music.
5. Means for musicians to express their ideas.
The present situation.
1. What is the link between politics and music nowadays?
2. A rising link between music and economy.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Art is often seen as a way to escape from reality, to enter a new universe, and indeed it is. Art has to create emotions, to make people understand how irrational their life can be or sometimes just to make the beauty hidden from their eyes appears. And nobody knows how Art manage to touch so deeply almost everyone. We can understand the artists but Art remains a mystery. Why do these three notes evoke so many things? With Art, Man discovered he had the possibility to create things he would never understand. Art is a piece of eternity and Man needs to believe he can be eternal. That's why it's an original subject to try in this survey to link what seems to be so abstract with a pragmatic and human science: politics. To make this relation appear, we will restrict our work to the specific part of art which is music. This lout syllogism gives the direction of our reflexion. Particularly in the 20th century, examples are numerous of this strong link between music and politics. There are many reasons to this which we probably won't manage to count all, but our modest aim thought a so large subject is to show how music is deeply rooted in the social context. As Jacques Attali said, "music is an attribute of political power". That's why, in history, music has been widely used by diverse politicians and governments, and for diverse reasons. We will try to understand how music can be useful for politicians.