A seminar on « Music and Political Action: the cases of immigrants and ethnic minorities in a comparative perspective » took place at the Palace University of Warsaw.
The presentation explored the relevance of popular music in ethnic, racial and nationalist politics around the world. The theoretical point of departure was the contribution of political scientist mark Matterns. In a book entitled Acting in Concern: Music, Community and Political Action (Rutgers University Press, 1998), he makes the claim that popular music can have political implication and he presents a typology of three kinds of political action in popular music: confrontational political action, deliberative political action, pragmatic political action. I shall first expose Mattern’s approach. I shall then criticize it. I shall finally try to discuss the differences and similarities in which popular music operates in racial, ethnic and nationalist politics by using selected empirical data from an ongoing research project.
Place: Ball Room in the Tyszkiewicz's Palace University of Warsaw (at the Main Campus in Krakowskie Przedmiescie).
All students were welcomed to attend this event.