The Soundtrack of Conflict

M.J. Grant; Férida J. Stone-Davis

doi:10.5771/9783487423708

Summary

Since the early twentieth century, radio has been one of the most important media both generally and in the specific context of armed conflict. Relatively cheap and with the ability to transmit over long ranges – and over international borders – radio has become central to the wartime strategies of governments and guerrilla groups alike. The role of music on radio in wartime and in conflict situations has, however, only rarely been the focus of scholarly attention, despite the central role that music plays in this medium. The essays in this volume offer case studies spanning over eighty years and five continents. They explore the many important roles that music broadcast on radio can play in wartime and in conflict situations – as a means of information (and misinformation), as a communication medium by those separated by and yet connected through the fighting, and as an aid to managing the complex emotions that are experienced. Moreover, the essays demonstrate that music is not just a soundtrack to conflict, but can also influence the very course that a conflict takes. In the range of examples discussed and the theoretical issues raised, the volume presents a significant contribution to the musicological study of war and conflict.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-487-15059-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-487-42370-8
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag, Baden-Baden
Series: Göttingen Studies in Musicology/Göttinger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft
Volume: 4
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Introduction No access Pages 7 - 12 M. J. Grant, Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Music in Radio Broadcasts in the Gulag No access Pages 13 - 24 Inna Klause
Defining a European ‘New Order’ through Music: Ancient Music in Italian Radio Broadcasting during the Fascist Period No access Pages 25 - 42 Mauro Fosco Bertola
Music on the Airwaves in Occupied France No access Pages 43 - 56 Karine le Bail
Jazz, World War II Radio Propaganda and the Case of Tokyo Rose No access Pages 57 - 74 Katherine A. Baber
Music in Greek Radio Broadcasting in Wartime (1940–1950): Complicity and Resistance No access Pages 75 - 84 Elli Charamis
Propaganda and Music: Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s No access Pages 85 - 100 Vlasis Vlasidis
Henry Cowell and the Development of Iranian State Radio for the United States Information Agency No access Pages 101 - 110 Peter Schimpf
Radio Freedom, Songs of Freedom and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa (1963–1991) No access Pages 111 - 130 Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
The Free Voice of China: Pirate Radio Broadcasts of Teresa Teng from Taiwan and Hong Kong during the Cold War in Asia No access Pages 131 - 142 Chen-Ching Cheng
Integration or Separation? A Story of Radio and Music in Fiji No access Pages 143 - 164 Ruth Finnegan
Radio and Music in the Last Months of the Eelam War in Sri Lanka No access Pages 165 - 178 Pradeep N’ Weerasinghe
Broadcasting and the Musicology of War: The Case of Sierra Leone No access Pages 179 - 196 Paul Richards
Martial Music at Dawn: Introit for Coups d’État No access Pages 197 - 210 Oluwafemi Alexander Ladapo
The Musicology of Justice: Simon Bikindi and Incitement to Genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda No access Pages 211 - 230 James Parker
Sonic Consumerism and Audience Manufacture in US Music Broadcasts to the Middle East No access Pages 231 - 248 Beau Bothwell
Notes on Contributors No access Pages 249 - 254