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Street, John 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-063X
(2007)
Breaking the silence: Music's role in political thought and action.
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 10 (3).
pp. 321-337.
ISSN 1743-8772
Abstract
This article explores the connection between politics and music; in particular it asks how music might be incorporated into accounts of political thought and action. Despite the fact that political science has tended to neglect the place of music in politics, there are a number of writers, such as Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, who have taken a different course. For them, music is intimately linked, via its aesthetics, to ethical judgements and to social order. The article develops these latter claims and connects them to work of a similar kind in music studies to propose a framework which helps to make sense of, and give due weight to, the place of music – as organised sound – in political thought and action. Music, it is argued, should not be viewed just as a footnote to, or appendage of, political thought and action, but rather as an integral feature of them.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:26 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9266 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13698230701400296 |
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