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Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign book cover

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Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign

By Justin Patch Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign paints a portrait of the political experience at a pivotal time in American political and social history. The modern political campaign is aestheticized and assimilated into mass culture, divorced from fact and policy, and nakedly tethered to emotional appeal. Through a multi-modal comparative examination of the sonic... Read more

1. Introduction: Listening to the Savage Heart of the American Dream



2. Ethnography: Getting Spun as Method



3. Campaign as Modern Magic



4. Prelude: The Noise of Politics / The Politics of Noise



5. Sonic Democracy: The Noise is the Signal



6. The Passions of Politics: Affect, Empathy, and Sound



7. The Populist Sensorium: The Politics of Sounding and the Performance of Listening



8. Our Politics: Deafened and Dumbstruck



9. Conclusion: In Defense of Noise



Biography

Justin Patch is Assistant Professor of music at Vassar College whose research focuses on sound and emotion in contemporary US political campaigns. His scholarship has appeared in Soundings, The European Legacy, The Journal of Sonic Studies, Americana, The Ethnomusicology Review, American Music, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and several edited volumes on music and education.

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