Popular music has traditionally served as a rallying point for
voices of opposition, across a huge variety of genres. This volume
examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as
anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and
responds to the music produced. Implicit in the notion of
resistance is a broad adversarial hegemony against which opposition
is measured. But it would be wrong to regard the music of popular
protest as a kind of dialogue in league against 'the
establishment'. Convenient though they are, such 'us and them'
arguments bespeak a rather shop-worn stance redolent of youthful
rebellion. It is much more fruitful to perceive the relationship as
a complex dialectic where musical protest is as fluid as the
audiences to which it appeals and the hegemonic structures it
opposes. The book's contemporary focus (largely post-1975) allows
for comprehensive coverage of extremely diverse forms of popular
music in relation to the creation of communities of protest.
Because such communities are fragmented and diverse, the shared
experience and identity popular music purports is dependent upon an
audience collectivity that is now difficult to presume. In this
respect, The Resisting Muse examines how the forms and aims of
social protest music are contingent upon the audience's ability to
invest the music with the 'appropriate' political meaning. Amongst
a plethora of artists, genres, and themes, highlights include
discussions of Aboriginal rights and music, Bauhaus, Black Sabbath,
Billy Bragg, Bono, Cassette culture, The Capitol Steps, Class, The
Cure , DJ Spooky, Drum and Bass, Eminem, Farm Aid, Foxy Brown,
Folk, Goldie, Gothicism, Woody Guthrie, Heavy Metal, Hip-hop,
Independent/home publishing, Iron Maiden, Joy Division, Jungle, Led
Zeppelin, Lil'Kim, Live Aid, Marilyn Manson, Bob Marley, MC Eiht,
Minor Threat, Motown, Queen Latifah, Race, Rap, Rastafarianism,
Reggae, The Roots, Diana Ross, Rush, Salt-n-Pepa, 7 Seconds,
Roxanne Shante, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy,
Michelle Shocked, Bessie Smith, Straight edge Sunrize Band, Bunny
Wailer, Wilco, Bart Willoughby, Wirrinyga Band, Zines.
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