Arabesk: Music and nationalism

Arabesk: Music and nationalism

Music and the Rise of Caribbean Nationalism: The Jamaican Case

Caribbean nationalism emerged in many ways, but music played a vital role in furnishing emotion and ideological cohesion, and fueled the excitement and sustainability of nationalist identification leading up and following independence. This study employs the musical form, ska, to exemplify how music generated a sense of nationalism in Jamaica during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and as such p...

Chinese Nationalism and the Mishaps that Closed the Show on Google Music

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 245 I. BACKGROUND OF PIRACY IN CHINA .................................................. 246 A. Piracy Today and the Increase in Internet Users .................. 246 B. History of Piracy as an Acceptable Practice in Chinese Culture .....................................................................

Not about Nationalism: The Role of Folk Song in Identity Process

Nationalism has been one of the preferred topics in both academic and popular discourse within the last few years. However, its vagueness and significant emotional content often muddy the arguments surrounding it. Taking one step back and looking at national identity through the lense of folk music, particulary as it has been used in Hungary by Bartok and the Dance House movement, one can see t...

The Trouble with Nationalism: ‘Englishness’ in the Quartets of Britten, Tippett, and Vaughan Williams

This thesis is, in general terms, an examination of the need for nationalism as a defining characteristic in music. Specifically, it deals with a term, ‘Englishness’, which is thrown lightly about in criticism and biographies by English writers with greater frequency throughout the twentieth century up until the Second World War. Through three quartets written near the end of that war by three ...