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Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise
political, social and economic structures, through the lens of
alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work
on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical content to
defend the provocative claim that the Welsh band pushes the
critical message shaped in their lyrics to the forefront. Their
music, this suggests, along with sleeve art, body-art, video-clips,
clothes, interviews and performances, serves to emphasise this
critical message and the primary role played by the band's lyrics.
Blending the disciplines of popular music studies, culture studies
and philosophy, Peters confronts the ideas of German philosopher
and social critic Theodor W. Adorno with the entire catalogue of
Manic Street Preachers, from their 1988 single 'Suicide Alley' to
their 2018 album Resistance is Futile. Although Adorno argues that
popular music is unable to resist the standardising machinery of
consumption culture, Peters paradoxically uses his ideas to show
that Manic Street Preachers releases shape 'critical models' with
which to formulate social and political critique. This notion of
the 'critical model' enables Peters to argue that the catalogue of
Manic Street Preachers critically addresses a wide range of themes,
from totalitarianism to Holocaust representation, postmodern
temporality to Europeanism, and from Nietzsche's ideas about
self-overcoming to reflections on digimodernism and post-truth
politics. The book therefore persuasively shows that Manic Street
Preacher lyrics constitute an intertextual network of links between
diverse cultural and political phenomena, encouraging listeners to
critically reflect on the structures that shape our lives.
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