English summary: Music is regarded as an expression of individual emotion. Nevertheless, it can also be used for representative purposes or collective protest in the same way. The musical power does not refer in this way only to individually emotional and emphatic moments, but also and or about that onto public places. In this function, music can create cultural identity and identities, support power systems and state systems or undermine as well as serve the political positioning and its expression. In this way music ...
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English summary: Music is regarded as an expression of individual emotion. Nevertheless, it can also be used for representative purposes or collective protest in the same way. The musical power does not refer in this way only to individually emotional and emphatic moments, but also and or about that onto public places. In this function, music can create cultural identity and identities, support power systems and state systems or undermine as well as serve the political positioning and its expression. In this way music supports and accompanies cultural, social and political developments. By means of well-chosen case studies, these transformation processes are analyzed in Europe of the early modern times up to the present. Beside nobility courts, armies or political rulers, social movements and groups as civic movements and musical youth and subcultures are examined. The spectrum ranges from state music and art music about (national) songs, the German Schlager and hits up to rock songs and pop songs. The authors are experts in the field of history and musicology as well as police science and the military music of the German Federal Armed Forces. German description: Musik gilt als Ausdruck des individuell Emotionalen. Sie kann jedoch ebenso zu reprasentativen Zwecken oder kollektivem Protest verwendet werden. Die musikalische Wirkungsmacht bezieht sich damit nicht allein auf individuell emotionale und emphatische Momente, sondern auch auf den offentlichen Raum. In dieser Funktion kann Musik gleichermassen kulturelle Identitat(en) stiften, Macht- und Staatssysteme unterstutzen oder untergraben sowie der politischen Positionierung und Artikulierung dienen. Sie unterstutzt und begleitet kulturelle, soziale und politische Entwicklungen. Anhand ausgewahlter Fallbeispiele werden diese Wandlungsprozesse in Europa von der fruhen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart analysiert. Neben Adelshofen, Armeen und politischen Amts- und Machtinhabern rucken gesellschaftliche Stromungen und Gruppen wie Burgerbewegungen und musikalische Jugend- und Subkulturen in den Fokus. Das Spektrum reicht von Staatsmusik und Kunstmusik uber (Volks-)Lieder und Schlager bis hin zu Rock- und Popsongs.
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