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Music, Imperialism, and Anti-imperialism

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Blues; Country; Electronica; Evangelical; Folk; Hip hop; Hymnody; Indian classical; Jazz; National anthems; Reggae blues, national anthems

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This chapter examines musical forms from the 18th to 21st centuries. In each zone, the chapter asserts an imperial force is designated from Britain, the United States, and other heartlands of imeperialism in opposition to musical forms from dissenting peoples resisting imperial exploitation across the world.

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This essay explores the opposing uses to which musical forms are put within three key historic and contemporary zones which span the 18th and 21st centuries.

These zones designate imperial force, as it is embodied by Britain and America, as well as the oppressed communities of the heartlands of imperialism, in African America, and dissenting and dissident Britain; imperial agency, such as Chile and Israel, as well as the interior, subaltern, and exterior zones of exile, through which resistance takes...

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George, E., Piva, A. (2021). Music, Imperialism, and Anti-imperialism. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_246

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