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This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces
during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how
cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain
conditions by creating, designing, and curating new objects and
events, and through making alternative combinations of practices
and spaces. By examining contexts and practices of remaking culture
and music, it goes beyond being a chronicle of how the pandemic
disrupted cultural life and livelihoods. The book also raises
crucial questions about the forms and dynamics of post-pandemic
spaces of culture and music. Main themes include the affective and
embodied dimensions that shape the experience, organisation, and
representation of cultural and musical activity; the restructuring
of industries and practices of work and cultural production; the
transformation of spaces of cultural expression and community; and
the uncertainty and resilience of future culture and music. This
collection will be instrumental for researchers, practitioners, and
students studying the spatial, material, and affective dimensions
of cultural production in the fields of cultural sociology,
cultural and creative industries research, festival and event
studies, and music studies. Its interdisciplinary nature makes it
beneficial reading for anyone interested in what has happened to
culture and music during the global pandemic and beyond.
David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many
layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in
popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together
established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of
backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary
theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies.
Bowie's complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer,
actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his
overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its
scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of
'textualities', 'psychologies', 'orientalisms', 'art and agency'
and 'performing and influencing' in Bowie's work. This
comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular
music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.
David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many
layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in
popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together
established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of
backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary
theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies.
Bowie's complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer,
actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his
overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its
scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of
'textualities', 'psychologies', 'orientalisms', 'art and agency'
and 'performing and influencing' in Bowie's work. This
comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular
music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.
Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of
migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political
consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they
influence both the general public's perception of migration and the
policies which regulate both the act of migration itself and
migrant residents. Public and Political Discourses of Migration
brings together an interdisciplinary group of established and
emerging scholars, whose work interrogates the relationship between
discourse and migration. Through the application of a variety of
theoretical lenses drawn from the broad canon of discourse studies,
each contribution unpicks the productive power of discourse in
shaping the reality of migration, migration policy and migrant
lives in the twenty-first century. The cases examined emerge, as do
their authors, from a wide spectrum of national, political and
cultural contexts. They are linked by their fundamental questioning
of 'common sense' and ahistorical approaches to migration. They
address the question of whose interests are served by prevailing
discourses and the structures they underpin. Ultimately, they 'make
strange' accepted 'truths' regarding migration in the twenty-first
century.
Led by the iconic Ian Curtis, Joy Division remains one of the most
influential bands to emerge in the British Post-Punk Scene. In
spite of Joy Division's relatively short existence, their unique
sound and distinct iconography have had a lasting impact on music
fans and performers alike. This book disassembles the band's
contribution to rock music. Based on up-to-date original research,
Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging
scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this
multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian
Curtis, in particular. Given Joy Division's complexities, the book
draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines and approaches in
order to make sense of this influential band.
Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive companion guide to music
and social protest globally. Bringing together scholars from a
range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and
contexts for, songs and their performance that have been deployed
as part of local, regional and global social protest movements,
both in historical and contemporary times. Topics covered include:
Aesthetics Authenticity African American Music Anti-capitalism
Community & Collective Movements Counter-hegemonic Discourses
Critical Pedagogy Folk Music Identity Memory Performance Popular
Culture By placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge
ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and
economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed,
musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social
Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students
exploring song and singing as a form of protest.
Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion
guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together
established and emerging scholars from a range of fields, it
explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and
their performance that have been deployed as part of local,
regional and global social protest movements, both in historical
and contemporary times. Topics covered include: *Aesthetics
*Authenticity *African American Music *Anti-capitalism *Community
& Collective Movements *Counter-hegemonic Discourses *Critical
Pedagogy *Folk Music *Identity *Memory *Performance *Popular
Culture Encompassing nuanced historical-political-economic
contextualizations and detailed ethnographic, socio-musicological
analysis, this comprehensive book offers new and critical
perspectives on genres already associated with protest alongside
explorations of rich music traditions which may not be readily
familiar to Western readers interested in protest movements and
song. By placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge
ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and
economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed,
musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social
Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students
exploring song and singing as a form of protest.
Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of
migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political
consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they
influence both the general public's perception of migration and the
policies which regulate both the act of migration itself and
migrant residents. Public and Political Discourses of Migration
brings together an interdisciplinary group of established and
emerging scholars, whose work interrogates the relationship between
discourse and migration. Through the application of a variety of
theoretical lenses drawn from the broad canon of discourse studies,
each contribution unpicks the productive power of discourse in
shaping the reality of migration, migration policy and migrant
lives in the twenty-first century. The cases examined emerge, as do
their authors, from a wide spectrum of national, political and
cultural contexts. They are linked by their fundamental questioning
of 'common sense' and ahistorical approaches to migration. They
address the question of whose interests are served by prevailing
discourses and the structures they underpin. Ultimately, they 'make
strange' accepted 'truths' regarding migration in the twenty-first
century.
Led by the iconic Ian Curtis, Joy Division remains one of the most
influential bands to emerge in the British Post-Punk Scene. In
spite of Joy Division's relatively short existence, their unique
sound and distinct iconography have had a lasting impact on music
fans and performers alike. This book disassembles the band's
contribution to rock music. Based on up-to-date original research,
Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging
scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this
multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian
Curtis, in particular. Given Joy Division's complexities, the book
draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines and approaches in
order to make sense of this influential band.
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