Finding Democracy in Music (Paperback)

Introduction: looking for democracy in music and elsewhere 1. ‘Unsociable sociability’: orchestras, conflict and democratic politics in Finland after 1917 2. Dismantling borders, assembling hierarchies: Percy Grainger and the idea of democracy 3. How democratic is jazz 4. Curating difference: Elliott Carter and democracy 5. Getting exercised: ensemble relations in Christian Wolff’s Exercises 6. Defining audible democracy: new music in post-dictatorship Argentina 7. Network music and digital utopianism: the rise and fall of the Res Rocket Surfer project, 1994?2003 8. As the band hit full throttle: live event, mediatization and collective identification in popular music concert films 9. Reinventing audiences: imagining radical musical democracies