Musical Democracy

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State University of New York Press, 1 февр. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 178
Musical metaphors abound in political theory and music often accompanies political movements, yet music is seldom regarded as political communication. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy S. Love explores how music functions as metaphor and model for democracy in the work of political theorists and activist musicians. She examines deliberative democratic theorists—Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls—who employ musical metaphors to express the sense of justice that animates their discourse ideals. These metaphors also invoke embodied voices that enter their public discourse only in translation, as rational arguments for legal rights. Love posits that the music of activists from the feminist and civil rights movements—Holly Near and Bernice Johnson Reagon—engages deeper, more fluid energies of civil society by modeling a democratic conversation toward which deliberative democrats' metaphors merely suggest. To omit movement music from politics is, Love argues, to refuse the challenges it poses to modern, rational, secular, Western democracy. In conclusion, Musical Democracy proposes that a more radical—and more musical—democracy would embrace the spirit of humanity which moves a politics dedicated to the pursuit of justice.

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1 Music and Democracy
1
Rationalizing Resonance
17
Orchestrating Consensus
45
Singing For Our Lives
67
Moving the Spirit
87
6 Toward a More Musical Democracy
109
Notes
119
References
135
Index
157
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Стр. 120 - The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
Стр. 89 - They that walked in darkness sang songs in the olden days — Sorrow Songs — for they were weary at heart.
Стр. 38 - According to my conception, the philosopher ought to explain the moral point of view, and— as far as possible— justify the claim to universality of this explanation, showing why it does not merely reflect the moral intuitions of the average, male, middle-class member of a modern Western society.
Стр. 27 - The point is to protect areas of life that are functionally dependent on social integration through values, norms, and consensus formation, to preserve them from falling prey to the systemic imperatives of economic and administrative subsystems growing with dynamics of their own, and to defend them from becoming converted over, through the steering medium of the law, to a principle of sociation that is, for them, dysfunctional.
Стр. 32 - Words acquire their meanings only from their always insistent actual habitat, which is not, as in a dictionary, simply other words, but includes also gestures, vocal inflections, facial expression, and the entire human, existential setting in which the real, spoken word always occurs.
Стр. 59 - This explains the propriety of the name "justice as fairness": it conveys the idea that the principles of justice are agreed to in an initial situation that is fair. The name does not mean that the concepts of justice and fairness are the same, any more than the phrase "poetry as metaphor" means that the concepts of poetry and metaphor are the same.
Стр. 3 - character" as a general term for whatever can be thought of as distinct (any thing, pattern, situation, structure, nature, person, object, act, role, process, event, etc.,) then we could say that metaphor tells us something about one character as considered from the point of view of another character. And to consider A from the point of view of B is, of course, to use B as a perspective upon A.
Стр. 36 - Civil society is composed of those more or less spontaneously emergent associations, organizations, and movements that, attuned to how societal problems resonate in the private life spheres, distill and transmit such reactions in amplified form to the public sphere.

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Nancy S. Love is Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State at University Park. She is the author of Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity and Understanding Dogmas and Dreams: A Text, Second Edition, and the editor of Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies, Third Edition.

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