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Popular Music and the Myths of Madness (Paperback)
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Popular Music and the Myths of Madness (Paperback)
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Studies of opera, film, television, and literature have
demonstrated how constructions of madness may be referenced in
order to stigmatise but also liberate protagonists in ways that
reinforce or challenge contemporaneous notions of normality. But to
date very little research has been conducted on how madness is
represented in popular music. In an effort to redress this
imbalance, Nicola Spelman identifies links between the
anti-psychiatry movement and representations of madness in popular
music of the 1960s and 1970s, analysing the various ways in which
ideas critical of institutional psychiatry are embodied both
verbally and musically in specific songs by David Bowie, Lou Reed,
Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, and Elton John. She
concentrates on meanings that may be made at the point of reception
as a consequence of ideas about madness that were circulating at
the time. These ideas are then linked to contemporary conventions
of musical expression in order to illustrate certain interpretative
possibilities. Supporting evidence comes from popular musicological
analysis - incorporating discourse analysis and social semiotics -
and investigation of socio-historical context. The uniqueness of
the period in question is demonstrated by means of a more
generalised overview of songs drawn from a variety of styles and
eras that engage with the topic of madness in diverse and often
conflicting ways. The conclusions drawn reveal the extent to which
anti-psychiatric ideas filtered through into popular culture,
offering insights into popular music's ability to question general
suppositions about madness alongside its potential to bring issues
of men's madness into the public arena as an often neglected topic
for discussion.
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