Music and Global Politics
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The "Devil's Music"?: The Genius of the Blues at the Heart of Modern Music
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Music and Global Politics. Like and subscribe, rate and review and support . Patreon/Gmail: musicandpoliticspod. Become an RSS member ...
Rock Religion: How Spirituality Displaced Politics at the end of the 60s
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Music and Global Politics. Like and subscribe, rate and review and support . Patreon/Gmail: musicandpoliticspodIn honour of Easter, Pa...
The Creole Origins of Jazz: Reconsidering the Emergence of America's Classical Music
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Music and Global Politics. Please rate, review, like and subscribe and support us on Patreon at musicandpoliticspod.comToday we recons...
Ravin' in Hong Kong: Electro's Politics and Performance with Pauline Mornet
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome Back to Music and Global Politics. Please like, rate subscribe, share with a friend and support us on Patreon at musicandpoliticspod.comToday ...
From Russia with Wagner: The Russian Alternative Perspective
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Music and Global Politics. Please like, rate and subscribe and support on Patreon at musicandpoliticspod.comRussia is a font of altern...
Pop Therapy: Taylor,, Lana and Mental Health with Dr. Daniel Zimmerman
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can Pop be a cure for the melancholy and pain of our age? Has it always been? Today we bring a practicing NYC-based psychiatrist to probe the music of...
Paid Protestors and Politics "For Hire": A Conversation with the Founder of "Crowds on Demand," Adam Swart
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season Four dear listeners. Thank you for your patience and today we are proud to present to you Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand—...
Bob Dylan(s) Gone Global: Exploring World Folk Protest
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most everyone has heard of Bob Dylan, but what about the many other folk protest singers just as famous in their respective countries: Victor Jara in ...
A 422 Year Old Passion Play from Austria: The Greatest Story Ever Told
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The two musical selections you hear are both compositions of Christian Kolonovits:The Soundtrack to the Film "North Face"Musical Preview of the Erl Pa...
"The Ghetto is Everywhere": Debating the Kulturbund, Minority Art under a Dictatorship with Dr. Tobias Reichhard
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome again and thank you for joining us for another episode of "Music and Politics." As ever our discussions precede and finish with musical select...
Lecture on Bach, Meyerbeer and the Jews: From Secular Priests to the Reform of Reform
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a lecture delivered at the Historisches Seminar at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich. It is preceded by an introduction and ...
Rock 'N Roll Democracy: Riots, Nazi Police and Early West German Rock Culture with Ronald Herrmann
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when America's democracy can seem like its teetering on the brink, its worth remembering that West German Democracy was a shining success st...
The "Singing Revolution" and the Estonian Song and Dance Festival with Maris Hellrand
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak with a representative from Estonia's quinquennial Song and Dance Festival one of the largest of its kind in the world. Maris ...
Musical War Crimes and the legacy of Wagnerism With Dr. Larry Mass
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we continue to examine the toxic brew that is Wagnerism with Dr Larry Mass. In this concluding discussion of his musical life, we cov...
The War on Gaza, Feminist Art Strategies and Antizionism in the Arts with Marianna Ellenberg
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome dear listeners as we confront what some refer to as the defining issue of our times: Palestine. We welcome as our guest arts communicator and ...
Hip Hop and Politics: Afrocentricity and the Case of XClan with MasD
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome dear listeners to the first episode of a recurring segment on Hip-Hop and Politics. Today we welcome MC MasD from Dujeous to dive into Afrocen...
Antisemitism, Addicition and Wagnerism: A Musical Life with Dr. Larry Mass
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Please join us dear listeners as we embark on a multipart musical biography with Dr Lawrence Mass. An addiction medicine specialist, gay rights activi...
A Journey into Chinese Jazz with Henry Chung Esq.
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, Thank you for joining us as we embark on season 3. We begin with a journey into Chinese Jazz, into the delightful and turbulent demimo...
Music in the Age of Dictators: Stalinism, Nazism and the Popular Front
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Music & Politics" we explore music in the age of dictators, in the 1930s and 1940s: Stalinism, Nazism and the Popular Front. T...
Spotlight on Music as a Commodity: Listening to the Oldest Commercial Records
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The music listening public has come back full circle to that point over a century back when music existed only in the ether, evanescent and fleeting, ...
Spotlight on Charleston: Spirituals, Slavery, Gospel and Gullah
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Music and Politics" we shine a light on Charleston, SC, a city in the Deep South once the largest and richest in Colonial America....
The Jewish Politics of Punk and Pop: Conversations about Lou Reed and Brian Epstein
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss the Jewish politics of pop and punk with conversations about Lou Reed and Brian Epstein that ranges from fashion to the av...
Spotlight on "Degenerate" Music: A Conversation on "Middle Class Panic" and the Arts
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Please tune in for this conversation with cultural historian Dr Jon Gentry on "degenerate music," what it is - what it means and why it matters! Perha...
Lecture on Wagner, Marx and Meyerbeer: Part Two
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this continuation of our deep dive into Wagner, Marx and Meyerbeer which explore maybe first and most total instance of "cancel culture" in music: ...
Lecture on Wagner, Marx and Meyerbeer
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The roots of all modern fantasy series from Star Wars to Lord of the Rings can mostly be found in Wagner and his 16 hour music-dramatic tetralogy "the...
Lecture 2: Beethoven and Napoleon
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And here continues and concludes the full length lecture on Beethoven and Napoleon. A full transcript should also be available as the discussion conti...
Lecture on Beethoven and Napoleon I
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a longer format full length lecture on Beethoven and Napoleon. This episode is part one of two parts. This covers in greater depth Bee...
Modernity and the Color Line: From Symphonic Jazz to European Jazz
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we pick up the conversation on theories of modernity with a focus on the "color line" as music from the global African Diaspora makes...
The Postmodern and Music for the Hyperreal: Prog and Punk
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us and we listen to prog and punk as a window onto theories of the postmodern, during the decade of decay and decline, the 1970s. This episode fe...
Beethoven and Napoleon: Enlightened Heroics and the Unheard of Act
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Embodying the Enlightenment ideal of emancipation of the self, Beethoven reworked the modern orchestra at the same time that Napoleon restructured the...
Queens: AIDS, Gender and Camp in Pop
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode spans the history of popular music (e.g. Little Richard, Beatles, Lou Reed, Queen) with a focus on gender non-conformity, androgyny, and ...
Racism versus Liberalism: Wagner contra Meyerbeer
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Its a musico-political faceoff of two opera titans of the 19th Century: Wagner and Meyerbeer. The former lives on in Star Wars and the Lord of the Rin...
1968: Radical Chic and Revolution as Rhetoric
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode focuses on the seminal year 1968, year of the Prague Spring and the French General Strike. Examining the philosophies of new intentional ...
The Troubles: Pop's Hidden Hibernia and Ireland's Quest for Freedom
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Music & Politics explores the sectarian strife in Ireland through the lens of pop music. The long-lasting oppression and occupatio...
Nationalism: Imagined Communities and Invented Traditions
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode grapples with the perennial potent power of nationalism in politics. How do nations get created, even invented, we ask. Multiple theories...
Modernity, Suffrage and the Emancipation of Women
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modernity is universally acknowledged as a time of disruptive change and energies hard to tame. At times overlooked is the central role obsession over...
"Orientalism" in Music
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore the knowledge/power construct of "Orientalism" as elaborated by Palestinian Scholar Edward Said and how it may be discerned...