Betrachtungen zu Musik und Propaganda
Reflections on Music and Propaganda
Résumé
In general, the concept of propaganda refers to a method as well as the symbolic object mobilized by it. Propaganda equally constitutes a particular type of communication that involves not only the mobilization of objects, but also of discourse, places, acts, and rituals. This essay employs the writings of Max Weber, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Ellul, and Jacques Rancière to analyze propaganda as a particular type of symbolic political dispositif linked to a specific performance and utterance context. I examine humanitarian songs as a propagandatool in democracy, and show the conditions and the limits of their mobilization through their contextualization. I argue that the link between music and propaganda could be defined as the willingness of a particular power or organized opposition to control the symbolic and emotional dimension of musical works. Through giving the music a meaning in this way, they try to impose a certain social order or to invalidate other possible political configurations of reality. I discuss the contradiction between the specific polysemy of musical works and the fictional construction of reality produced by propaganda, and conclude that the political dimension of music should not necessarily be reduced to the propaganda dispositif. These musical works require consideration of the possibilities offered through fiction in contexts of specific representation, as well as the political dimension of collaborative musical practices.
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Cite hal-01758582 Article Luis Velasco-Pufleau. Autoritarisme, politique symbolique et création musicale. Stratégies de légitimation symbolique dans le Mexique postrévolutionnaire et le Nigeria postcolonial. Revue internationale de politique comparée, 2012, 19 (4), pp.15-40. ⟨10.3917/ripc.194.0015⟩. ⟨hal-01758582⟩
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Cite hal-01758602 Article Luis Velasco-Pufleau. Chansons humanitaires, dépolitisation des conflits et moralisation des relations internationales à la fin de la Guerre froide. Relations internationales, 2013, 156, pp.109-123. ⟨10.3917/ri.156.0109⟩. ⟨hal-01758602⟩
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Est une version de hal-01778301 Article Luis Velasco-Pufleau. Reflections on Music and Propaganda. Contemporary Aesthetics, 2014, 12. ⟨hal-01778301⟩