Music and Citizenship

Martin Stokes (Ethnomusicologist, Ethnomusicologist)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 December 2023

Western "classical" music

Series: Oxford Theory in Ethnomusicology

Critical citizenship practices and the language of today's populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today's insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of 'flexible' or 'differentiated' citizenships - plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining 'the political', its subjects, and its others on a variety of scales. They confront, too, critiques of citizenship in totalitarian or neoliberal governmentality that derive from Foucault, Agamben, and Arendt and have become pressing today in proliferating states of emergency and exception and the growing ranks of non-citizens.

How should these debates be configured now? And what place does music have in them? In Music and Citizenship, author Martin Stokes argues that music has for a long time been entangled with debates about citizenship and citizenly identities, though for various reasons this entanglement has been insufficiently recognized. Citizenship and citizenly identity debates, for their part, have important implications for the way we think about music in relation to politics, identity, and scholarly practice. Stokes's particular claim is that ethnomusicology has for too long configured relationships between music, society, and reflective and critical practice in terms of identity paradigms. The rejection of these identity paradigms in recent years has taken the form of a post- or anti-humanism that is equally problematic. This book challenges the conventional understanding of citizenship in terms of nationalism and national identity though the examination of case studies from across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. In this way, this volume departs from an earlier ethnomusicology preoccupied with belonging and cultural participation in the nation-state. Citizenship-the fantasy, according to some definitions, of political community without outsiders-suggests, in this book, a different space in which one might configure such relations, one more satisfactorily, and energetically, oriented to questions about musical ecology, sustainability, democracy, and inclusivity.

By: Martin Stokes (Ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicologist)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 344g
ISBN: 9780197555187
ISBN 10: 0197555187
Series: Oxford Theory in Ethnomusicology
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 27 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: How Musical is the Citizen? 1.1 Sly Civilities 1.2 Citizen Audience 1.3 Citizen Media 1.4 Citizen Voice 1.5 Citizen Performance 1.6 Conclusion Chapter 2. Ethnomusicology of Citizenship, Ethnomusicology as Citizenship 2.1 Identity 2.2 Technocracy 2.3 Intimacy 2.4 Conclusion Chapter 3. Citizenship Resounding 3.1 The Citizen on his Bike 3.2 The Citizen in the Crowd 3.3 The Citizen in the Square 3.4 Conclusion Chapter 4. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Martin Stokes is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of Europe and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Turkey and Egypt. He has taught at The Queen's University of Belfast, The University of Chicago, Oxford University, and King's College London. His books include The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey, Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place, and The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Martin Stokes urges us to regard citizenship as a fundamentally contested concept, whose diverse articulations are variously felt, signified, enacted, and mediated through musical practice. By surveying a wide range of theoretical perspectives, and through contemporary case studies that weave between bicycles, football crowds, and city parks, Stokes offers a landmark statement of pressing relevance to anyone concerned with music's social roles. * Robert Adlington, author of Musical Models of Democracy *