Miscellaneous
A specific form of the state in which one ruler has supreme authority that is not restricted by any written laws, by courts, or by the nobility.
What is absolute monarchy?
A type of song the purpose of which is established by its explicit desire to communicate political sentiments.
What is political song?
Related to the wheel of fortune
What is revolution?
The connection between religious and political ideas and practices.
What is political theology?
The assumption that music is common to all mankind
From the Greek antíphōna via Old English antefn.
What is an anthem?
Musical Imitation or resemblance of a real sound.
What is a musical icon?
Taking something (a song, lyric; whole or fragment) from its usual context and resituating it in an unfamiliar one
What is recontextualization?
A type of democracy that is often criticized for neutralizing political participation
What is liberal (representative) democracy?
"Music matters because it doesn't matter"
What is music as an ideology in disguise or a form of ideological deception?
The English Orpheus
Who is Handel?
When one or two people begin pieces and others gradually join in.
What is a feathered beginning?
Musical activity in which stylized sound and motion are conceptualized most importantly as heightened social interaction
What is participatory music?
The empty place of power
What is democracy? (Lefort)
Empirical, visible, and quantifiable (war, genocide, terrorism) violence
What is subjective violence?
Form of democracy without the mediation of delegates or representatives
What is direct democracy?
The substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music
Contrafactum
Type of power that controls how individuals view their place and role, and defining the limits of what they consider to be possible and impossible.
What is invisible power?
The Main logic of modern democratic systems
What is political equality?
"Violence (racism, gender discrimination, etc.) that is embodied in hegemonic forms of discourse, particularly language."
Power exercised openly through institutions, structures, policies and processes.
What is visible power?
A Haitian musical style still used today to serenade the powerful in Haitian society, played in a single, unifying rhythm.
What is the ochan?
Form of democracy that seeks to reach consensus through rational thought and speech
What is deliberative democracy?
"The condition that engages both rational and non-rational domains, often resulting in violent outbursts, but always leaving open the possibility for eventual peace."
What is conflict?
The transfer of meaning from one source to another
What is a metaphor? (How music can also communicate politics as organized sound)