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Sound System: The Political Power of Music
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Sound System: The Political Power of Music
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Sound System: The Political Power of Music
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Musicians have often wanted to change the world, and manyfrom underground grime artists to mainstream pop iconschannel that desire through the political power of music. Music has a unique ability to unsettle the most fundamental political and social conventionsor, alternatively, to stabilize the status-quo.
is the story of one musician’s journey to discover what exactly makes music so powerful. Years of touring, protesting, and performing have given Dave Randall an insider’s view of the music industry, enabling him to shed light on the most tightly held secrets of celebrity, commodification, and culture. He finds remarkable examples of music as a force of social change as well as something that has been used to keep people in their place throughout history. From the Glastonbury Festival to the Arab Spring,
to Trinidadian Carnival, Randall finds political inspiration across the musical spectrum. A blistering, intelligent polemic about the political power of music,
investigates the raves, riots, and revolution of contemporary culture to answer the questionhow can we make music serve the interest of the many, rather than the few?