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Protest
Music As Responsible Citizenship
(September 10-11, 2003), focuses on how
music helps to construct the political consciousness of a
nation, how songs mobilize
thousands
of people around issues affecting American life, and how music
addresses
the role of America in the global context. The event and conversation
brings
together
Harry Belafonte, Holly Near, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Pete
Seeger,
four
musicians
who have played key public roles in the past decades. Issues
of
citizenship,
music, and social change take on increasing significance in
this time of
increasing
polarization both at home and globally. Music and social change
have
been
documented through autobiographies and biographies of performers,
ethnographic
studies of music and cultural performance, and ethnomusicology
research
on music and revolution. However, little has been documented
about the
role
of public music performances in shaping citizen responses
to political events.
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