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A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest

McKay, GA

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GA McKay



Abstract

What happens in social movements when people actually move, how does the mobile moment of activism contribute to mobilisation? Are they marching or dancing? How is the space of action, the street itself, altered, re-sounded? The employment of street music in the very specific context of political protest remains a curiously under-researched aspect of cultural politics in social movements.... By looking at the marching bands of different socio- political and cultural contexts, primarily British, I aim to further current understanding of the idea and history of street music itself, as well as explore questions of the construction or repositioning of urban space via music'how the sound of music can alter spaces'; participation, pleasure and the political body; subculture and identity.

Citation

McKay, G. (2007). A soundtrack to the insurrection : street music, marching bands and popular protest. Parallax, 13(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534640601094817

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Feb 23, 2007
Publication Date Feb 23, 2007
Deposit Date Sep 27, 2007
Publicly Available Date Jul 6, 2021
Journal Parallax
Print ISSN 1353-4645
Electronic ISSN 1460-700X
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 13
Issue 1
Pages 20-31
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13534640601094817
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534640601094817
Related Public URLs http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/current

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