Music as Propaganda Art to Persuade, Art to Control
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
- Publish date: 01/01/1986
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"Propaganda is treated here as any philosophical ethos that inheres in music, whether because of a zeitgeist or by purposeful attempt to influence society by musical manipulation. The author traces social and political attitudes in Western music from Wagner and nationalism to Soviet composers, even to the Viennese operetta and its descendant, the Broadway musical...."-Choice
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