This book begins from the premise that we are living in an age in which
the social is in a continuous process of reinvention. The book is also
grounded in the assumption that music is a perennial key player in the
processes of reinventing the social since music holds the power to
stimulate and transport visions of change through its appeal to all
human senses in the Americas and beyond the American hemisphere.
Chapters address the intersection of music and identity politics, the
role of music in social movements, music's presence in commodity and
tourist culture, music in the context of museum culture, music's
presence in literature and the visual arts, and music documentary as
alternative sonic historiography.