Includes bibliographical references and index.

A censorship of forgetting : origins and origin myths of Battle hymn of the republic / Annie J. Randall -- Discipline and choralism : the birth of musical colonialism / G. Olwage -- Power needs names : hegemony, folklorization, and the viejitos dance of Michoacán, Mexico / R. Hellier-Tinoco -- The power to influence minds : German folk music during the Nazi era and after / B. Sweers -- The making of a national musical icon : Xian Xinghai and his Yellow River cantata / Hon-Lun Yang -- Dancing for the eternal president / K. Howard -- The power of recently revitalized Serbian rural folk music in urban settings / J. Jovanovic -- Hands off my instrument! / H. Reddington -- Barbadian tuk music, a fusion of musical cultures / S. Meredith -- There goes the transnational neighborhood : calypso buys a bungalow / M. Eldridge -- Fighting for the right (to) party? : discursive negotiations of power in pre-unification East German popular music / E. Larkey -- Who's listening? / B. Hogg -- Subversion and counter-subversion : power, control and meaning in the new Iranian pop music / L. Nooshin.