Please select one song and respond to the prompt attached below in paragraph for

Please select one song and respond to the prompt attached below in paragraph form. You may use the prompt itself, insert your response, and reupload here, or you may write it in a separate document. Please be sure to upload your response as a word document in the space provided for the assignment and not as a “comment” to the assignment.
Consider one of the songs discussed in class this week. Listen to it, reflect on it, and consider the role that it played in its unique political moment. How is this song used in the service of Power (whether the state or some other locus of power)? Is it used instead to resist Power? Is it a song that began as a vehicle for protest and then was later coopted by the Power? How so? Which of our philosophers’ ideas about power and resistance (and violence) speaks most directly to that dynamic in the song you have chosen?

Songs for the week:

– Neil Young – “Rockin’ in the Free World” (1989)
– Bruce Springsteen – “Born in the U.S.A.” (1984)
– The Chieftains (feat. Sinéad O’Connor) – “The Foggy Dew” (1995)
– Nine Inch Nails – “Somewhat Damaged” (1999)
– Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – “Matador” (1993)
– The Clash – “Washington Bullets” (1980)
– Rubén Blades – “Desapariciones” (1984)
– The Clash – “Rock the Casbah” (1983)
– Sonic Youth – “Teenage Riot” (1988)

Philosophers (and their concepts) discussed:

– Antonio Gramsci: Cultural Hegemony
– Joseph Nye: Hard and Soft power
– Slavoj Žižek: Objective vs. Subjective Violence (and “Symbolic” Violence)
– Jacques Attali: Music as “Organized Chaos”, Noise as “Simulacrum of Murder”
– Bennett Capers: Pacifying Effect of Music
– T.V. Reed: Punk’s raison d’être
– Michel Foucault: Power and Resistance; the Panopticon
– Byung-Chul Han: Capitalism and “Smart Power”; Social Media as Digital Panoptica