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Music and Global Politics

Discs of Dissent! Sounds of Subversion! "Music and Global Politics" is an arts and ideas-theme based podcast combining an exploration of politics and political philosophy alongside music listening and appreciation.

Podcast · By Adam J Sacks · English · Official site

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Sep 16, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Symphonic and "Revue" form Jazz of the 1920s (opens the original)

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    Welcome back to Music and Global Politics, please like and subscribe, support and share! The follow is a lecture on how Jazz went global just as it went orchestral. In the 1920s just as Broadway composers sought to integrate Jazz, audiences across the world. Occurring just as the devastation of World War One gave way to the Roaring Twenties, it is an oft overlooked fact, that the first global audiences to have encountered Jazz would have done so via a stage revue. Jazz also enjoyed the timing of

  2. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    Sexist Sacrifices and Musical Violence: Richard Wagner's Fantasies (opens the original)

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    Violence is often a theme in Richard Wagner’s work, as is the sacrifice of women in the name of the “rebirth” of male protagonists. Stay tuned ahead for a new concept in content delivery and condensed learning: Part One: Summary Information Part Two: Discussion Dialogue Part Three: A Text, Article Reading. As ever with begin and end with some startling and legendary music, this time both excerpts from Birgit Nilsson, undertaking, if you will forgive the pun, the deaths of two of Wagner's most me

  3. Episode · Aug 20, 2026

    Denazifying Carmina Burana: Challenging A Pervasive Poisonous Cantata (opens the original)

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    Welcome back to Music and Global Politics. Please don't forget to rate and review, like and subscribe, share and just listen. We are on gmail and Patreon both at musicandpoliticspod Today yet another chapter in musical denazification, perhaps the most popular place of classical music in the world Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. This is the second epsiode where we feature the new technology of an electronically generated dialogue. If you find it convincing and compelling please stay tuned for the ent

  4. Episode · Aug 4, 2026

    The Jews' Blues: Musical Symbiosis and Cultural Antiracism (opens the original)

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    Welcome to a new season and new approach on Music and Global Politics. After lectures and interviews, we now present dialogues and essay readings. Today's episode on the Jews' Blues gives some answer to the question: have you ever wanted to mine deep the roots of today's globally dominant pop culture. Answer, it is found at least in part, in the Black Jewish musical symbiosis. Today's theme is especially appropriate in our pre-pogrom times, as we witness the pernicious persecutory pattern persis

  5. Episode · Jul 21, 2026

    America the Criminal?!: Black Music and An Exploitation Neverending with Maestro Angelo Earl. (opens the original)

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    " O Criminal rapacious skies with bloody waves of pain. Dirty mountain travesty above the corpse strewn plain." Erasing heinous history with a brilliant plan to keep people stupid, join us as we listen and learn from Angelo Earl who enlightens about a deep history of Black music and exploitation. A veteran of the recording industry, Producer of Soulstreet Records, you will shortly hear some of his work as performer of electric guitar on Al Green 's "He Is The Light", Bobby Rush 's "Southern Soul

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