New Classical Order – Music and Politics Part Two And Three

On this episode of The New Classical Order Podcast, David Weuste and Dr. Jennifer Hund continue the discussion of Music & Politics focusing on music for propaganda, protest, revolution, and critique.

Listen Now:
The New Classical Order – Music and Politics (part 2)

The New Classical Order – Music and Politics (part 3)





Music from Part Two:

Track: Air and Simple Gifts
Album: Music of America – John Williams
Composer: John Williams
Artists: Yo Yo Ma
Label: Sony Masterworks
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Portraits of Freedom

Track: Lincoln Portrait
Album: Portraits of Freedom
Composer: Aaron Copland
Artists: James Earl Jones, narrator; Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Seattle Symphony
Label: Delos
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Christian Wolff

Track: Emma, Movement Five
Album: Christian Wolff: (Re:) Making Music – Works 1962-99
Composer: Christian Wolff
Artist: The Barton Workshop
Label: Mode
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Hydrogen Jukebox

Track: Part Two, Song #13 From Nagasaki Days (Everybody’s Fantasy)
Album: Hydrogen Jukebox
Composer: Philip Glass
Artist: Martin Goldray, conductor
Label: Nonesuch
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Music from Part 3:

Zippo Songs

Track: Zippo Songs: If I Had a Farm
Album: Zippo Songs
Composer: Phil Kline
Artist: Zippo Band, Phil Kline
Label: Cantaloupe Music
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Howl, USA

Track: Cold War Suite from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone), Perfect Weapon
Album: Howl, U.S.A.
Composer: Scott Johnson
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
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Howl, USA

Track: Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover
Album: Howl, U.S.A.
Composer: Michael Daugherty
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
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Zippo Songs

Track: 3 Rumsfeld Songs: No. 1. As We Know
Album: Zippo Songs
Composer: Phil Kline
Artist: Zippo Band, Phil Kline
Label: Cantaloupe Music
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Listen to Part One Here!

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Dr. Jennifer HundJennifer Hund is currently a music professor at Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts. She was previously a professor in the musicology department of Texas Christian University’s School of Music in Fort Worth. Prior to her work in Texas, she was visiting lecturer at Purdue University and Indiana University where she earned her Ph.D. in musicology in August 2007 with her dissertation “The Proposta e Risposta Madrigal, Dialogue, Cultural Discourse, and the Issue of Imitatio.” In this study, Hund combined her interests in the Italian madrigal, poetry, Renaissance studies, and dialogue. She also has a B.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Illinois Wesleyan University and an M.M. in Musicology from Florida State University. Her other interests include music and humor, opera and politics, the nineteenth-century symphony, and the pedagogy of music history. Hund is currently writing a book based on her dissertation research as well as completing another edition of A Study and Listening Guide for A History of Western Music (W. W. Norton).


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