Critical citizenship practices and the language of today''s populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today''s insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of ''flexible'' or ''differentiated'' citizenships - plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining ''the political'', its subjects, and its others on a variety of scales. They confront, too, critiques of citizenship intotalitarian or neoliberal governmentality that derive from Foucault, Agamben, and Arendt and have become pressing today in proliferating states of emergency and exception and the growing ranks of non-citizens.How should these debates be configured now? And what place does music have in them? In Music and Citizenship, author Martin Stokes argues that music has for a long time been entangled with debates about citizenship and citizenly identities, though for various reasons this entanglement has been insufficiently recognized.
