Music and Democracy

Abstract

and Performing Arts Vienna. His research focuses on the history of music industries and musicians' organisations, music & politics, and music culture(s) of the late Habsburg Empire and its successor states.After Donald Trump's failed re-election as President of the United States of America in fall 2020, the Republicans' out-of-the-blue claims of "electoral fraud" is just one of countless warning signs: to varying extents and degrees, democracy is in great danger all over the world. Already in the early 2000s, Colin Croach noted a subtle but increasing demolition of-but also an increased disinterest in-political participation of the people, which he considered as main