Local Musicking for a Global Cause

Caroline Bithell

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315687353

Local Musicking for a Global Cause

Caroline Bithell

Music

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Abstract

This chapter explores how today’s amateur music-makers sound out connections between the local and global through their participation in marches, demonstrations, rallies, and benefit concerts. Revealing the extent to which the contemporary activist landscape has been reconfigured by new technologies alongside a rise in people-powered politics, it also considers the potential for politically engaged musicking to transform the personal and collective lives of the givers as well as the lives of distant others. Illustrative examples come mainly from the United Kingdom, where the globalisation of activism has occurred in parallel with a revolution in community singing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking
Editors	Suzel A. Reily, Katherine Brucher
Place of Publication	London and New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	28
Pages	373–383
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-315-68735-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-138-92011-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315687353
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Community singing
Musical activism
Musicking
Local and global

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Changing Lives through Song
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14 Apr 2018
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Local Musicking for a Global Cause

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