Musical Models of Democracy

Music's role in animating democracy—whether through protests and demonstrations, as a vehicle for political identity, or as a means of overcoming social divides—is well understood. Yet musicians have also been drawn to the potential of embodying democracy itself through musical processes and relationships. In this book, author Robert Adlington uses modern democratic theory to explore what he terms the 'musical modelling of democracy' as manifested in modern and experimental music of the glo...