- The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication
- Contributors
- Political Communication: Then, Now, and Beyond
- Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication: A Five-Decade-Long Evolution of the Concept of Effects
- The Shape of Political Communication
- A Typology of Media Effects
- The Power of Political Communication
- Nowhere to Go: Some Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy
- How to Think Normatively About News and Democracy
- Not a Fourth Estate but a Second Legislature
- Presidential Address
- Political Messages and Partisanship
- Political Advertising
- Political Campaign Debates
- Niche Communication in Political Campaigns
- The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Communication
- The Political Uses and Abuses of Civility and Incivility
- The Politics of Memory
- Freedom of the Press: Theories and Realities
- Press–Government Relations in a Changing Media Environment
- News Media as Political Institutions
- Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage
- Comparative Political Communication Research
- Media Responsiveness in Times of Crisis
- The US Media, Foreign Policy, and Public Support for War
- Journalism and the Public-Service Model: In Search of an Ideal
- The Gatekeeping of Political Messages
- The Media Agenda: Who (or What) Sets It?
- Game versus Substance in Political News
- Going Institutional: The Making of Political Communications
- Theories of Media Bias
- Digital Media and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Political Communication
- Candidate Traits and Political Choice
- Political Communication, Information Processing, and Social Groups
- Civic Norms and Communication Competence: Pathways to Socialization and Citizenship
- Framing Inequality in Public Policy Discourse: The Nature of Constraint
- Political Communication: Insights from Field Experiments
- Communication Modalities and Political Knowledge
- Selective Exposure Theories
- The Hostile Media Effect
- Public and Elite Perceptions of News Media in Politics
- The Media and the Fostering of Political (Dis)Trust
- Cultivation Theory and the Construction of Political Reality
- Uses and Gratifications
- The State of Framing Research: A Call for New Directions
- Agenda-Setting Theory: The Frontier Research Questions
- Implicit Political Attitudes: When, How, Why, With What Effects?
- Affect and Political Choice
- Two-Step Flow, Diffusion, and the Role of Social Networks in Political Communication
- Taking Interdependence Seriously: Platforms for Understanding Political Communication
- Disagreement in Political Discussion
- The Internal Dynamics and Political Power of Small Group Political Deliberation
- Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication: Studies in Sociology and Political Science
- Self-censorship, the Spiral of Silence, and Contemporary Political Communication
- Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom and Foolishness of Deliberating Groups
- Broadcasting versus Narrowcasting: Do Mass Media Exist in the Twenty-First Century?
- Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism
- New Media and Political Campaigns
- Political Discussion and Deliberation Online
- The Political Effects of Entertainment Media
- Theories and Effects of Political Humor: Discounting Cues, Gateways, and the Impact of Incongruities
- Music as Political Communication
- Conditions for Political Accountability in a High-Choice Media Environment
- Political Communication: Looking Ahead
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter examines the ways in which music acts as political communication and plays an important role in politics. It notes that the contemporary study of political communication has tended to overlook the role that sound plays and provides an account of the ways in which music has been associated with political communication through protest, propaganda, and resistance. The chapter then explains how music can be understood to communicate politics and discusses how political communication scholars might study music’s role in the public sphere and civic engagement. It concludes by arguing that sound should be featured more prominently in political communication research than it is currently.
Keywords: music, Theodor Adorno, protest music, Robert Putnam, First Amendment, social movements, propaganda, resistance, Richard Wagner, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Street is a professor of politics at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Music and Politics (Polity, 2012) and Mass Media, Politics and Democracy (Palgrave, 2011), and a co-editor (with Simon Frith and Will Straw) of the Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (CUP, 2001). For ten years he reviewed music for The Times and he is currently a member of the editorial group of the journal Popular Music.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication
- Contributors
- Political Communication: Then, Now, and Beyond
- Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication: A Five-Decade-Long Evolution of the Concept of Effects
- The Shape of Political Communication
- A Typology of Media Effects
- The Power of Political Communication
- Nowhere to Go: Some Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy
- How to Think Normatively About News and Democracy
- Not a Fourth Estate but a Second Legislature
- Presidential Address
- Political Messages and Partisanship
- Political Advertising
- Political Campaign Debates
- Niche Communication in Political Campaigns
- The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Communication
- The Political Uses and Abuses of Civility and Incivility
- The Politics of Memory
- Freedom of the Press: Theories and Realities
- Press–Government Relations in a Changing Media Environment
- News Media as Political Institutions
- Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage
- Comparative Political Communication Research
- Media Responsiveness in Times of Crisis
- The US Media, Foreign Policy, and Public Support for War
- Journalism and the Public-Service Model: In Search of an Ideal
- The Gatekeeping of Political Messages
- The Media Agenda: Who (or What) Sets It?
- Game versus Substance in Political News
- Going Institutional: The Making of Political Communications
- Theories of Media Bias
- Digital Media and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Political Communication
- Candidate Traits and Political Choice
- Political Communication, Information Processing, and Social Groups
- Civic Norms and Communication Competence: Pathways to Socialization and Citizenship
- Framing Inequality in Public Policy Discourse: The Nature of Constraint
- Political Communication: Insights from Field Experiments
- Communication Modalities and Political Knowledge
- Selective Exposure Theories
- The Hostile Media Effect
- Public and Elite Perceptions of News Media in Politics
- The Media and the Fostering of Political (Dis)Trust
- Cultivation Theory and the Construction of Political Reality
- Uses and Gratifications
- The State of Framing Research: A Call for New Directions
- Agenda-Setting Theory: The Frontier Research Questions
- Implicit Political Attitudes: When, How, Why, With What Effects?
- Affect and Political Choice
- Two-Step Flow, Diffusion, and the Role of Social Networks in Political Communication
- Taking Interdependence Seriously: Platforms for Understanding Political Communication
- Disagreement in Political Discussion
- The Internal Dynamics and Political Power of Small Group Political Deliberation
- Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication: Studies in Sociology and Political Science
- Self-censorship, the Spiral of Silence, and Contemporary Political Communication
- Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom and Foolishness of Deliberating Groups
- Broadcasting versus Narrowcasting: Do Mass Media Exist in the Twenty-First Century?
- Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism
- New Media and Political Campaigns
- Political Discussion and Deliberation Online
- The Political Effects of Entertainment Media
- Theories and Effects of Political Humor: Discounting Cues, Gateways, and the Impact of Incongruities
- Music as Political Communication
- Conditions for Political Accountability in a High-Choice Media Environment
- Political Communication: Looking Ahead
- Index
