Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or eve

It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effec

The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as