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The political has always been part of popular music, but how does
that play out in today's musical and political landscape? Mixing
Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st
Century provides an innovative exploration of the complex politics
of popular music in its contemporary formations. Amid the shifting
paradigms of power in the 2020s, the chapters in this book go
beyond the idea of popular music as protest to explore how
resistance, subversion, containment, and reconciliation all
interact in the popular music realm. Covering a wide range of
international artists and genres, from South African hip-hop to
Polish punk, and addressing topics such as climate change and
environmentalism, feminism, diasporic identity, political parties,
music-making as labour, the far right, conservatism and nostalgia,
and civic engagement, the contributors expand our understanding of
how popular music is political. For students and scholars of music,
popular culture, and politics, the volume offers a broad, exciting
snapshot of the latest scholarship on contemporary popular music
and politics.
The political has always been part of popular music, but how does
that play out in today's musical and political landscape? Mixing
Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st
Century provides an innovative exploration of the complex politics
of popular music in its contemporary formations. Amid the shifting
paradigms of power in the 2020s, the chapters in this book go
beyond the idea of popular music as protest to explore how
resistance, subversion, containment, and reconciliation all
interact in the popular music realm. Covering a wide range of
international artists and genres, from South African hip-hop to
Polish punk, and addressing topics such as climate change and
environmentalism, feminism, diasporic identity, political parties,
music-making as labour, the far right, conservatism and nostalgia,
and civic engagement, the contributors expand our understanding of
how popular music is political. For students and scholars of music,
popular culture, and politics, the volume offers a broad, exciting
snapshot of the latest scholarship on contemporary popular music
and politics.
Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular
Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the
history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular
music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of
chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New
Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social
contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each
chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the
figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to
Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first
presents a general description of the history and background of
popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are
organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making;
Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and
Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.
Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular
Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the
history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular
music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The volume consists of
chapters by leading scholars of Australian and Aotearoan/New
Zealand music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social
contexts of pop music in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Each
chapter provides adequate context so readers understand why the
figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to
Australian or Aotearoan/New Zealand popular music. The book first
presents a general description of the history and background of
popular music in these countries, followed by chapters that are
organized into thematic sections: Place-Making and Music-Making;
Rethinking the Musical Event; Musical Transformations: Decline and
Renewal; and Global Sounds, Local Identity.
Although the song is often the subject of monographs, one of its
forms remains insufficiently researched: the vocalised song,
communicated to the spectator through performance. The study of the
song takes one back to the study of vocal practices, from aesthetic
objects to forms and to plural styles. To conceive a song means
approaching it in its different instances of creation as well as
its linguistic diversity. Jean Nicolas De Surmont proposes ways of
research and analysis useful to musicians, musicologists, and
literary critics alike. In his book he takes up the issue of vocal
poetry in addition to examining the theoretic aspects of song
objects. Rather than offering an autonomous model of analysis, De
Surmont extends the research fields and suggests responses to
debates that have involved everyone interested in vocal poetic
forms.
Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection
between place and music. This collection brings together a number
of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and
theories used to explore the relationships between place and music.
An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography,
ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this
book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and
consumption of place in popular music. Through considerations of
changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the
experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role
of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters
(queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the
construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city
branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-to-the-moment overview
of central discussions about place and music. The contributors
explore a range of contexts, moving from the studio to the stage,
the city to the suburb, the bedroom to festival, from nightclub to
museum, with each entry highlighting the diverse and complex ways
in which music and place are mutually constitutive.
Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection
between place and music. This collection brings together a number
of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and
theories used to explore the relationships between place and music.
An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography,
ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this
book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and
consumption of place in popular music. Through considerations of
changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the
experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role
of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters
(queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the
construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city
branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-to-the-moment overview
of central discussions about place and music. The contributors
explore a range of contexts, moving from the studio to the stage,
the city to the suburb, the bedroom to festival, from nightclub to
museum, with each entry highlighting the diverse and complex ways
in which music and place are mutually constitutive.
The night and popular music have long served to energise one
another, such that they appear inextricably bound together as trope
and topos. This history of reciprocity has produced a range of
resonant and compelling imaginaries, conjured up through countless
songs and spaces dedicated to musical life after dark. Nocturnes:
Popular Music and the Night is one of the first volumes to examine
the relationship between night and popular music. Its scope is
interdisciplinary and geographically diverse. The contributors
gathered here explore how the problems, promises, and paradoxes of
the night and music play off of one another to produce spaces of
solace and sanctuary as well as underpinning strategies designed to
police, surveil and control movements and bodies. This edited
collection is a welcome addition to debates and discussions about
the cultures of the night and how popular music plays a continuing
role in shaping them.
Poor, But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes offers readers a
varied cross-section of the city's scenes, providing a prismatic
view of one of Europe's mythical cultural capitals. The authors
gathered here address a range of topics, including Turkish gay
clubs, queer filmmaking, record labels, the legendary Russendisko,
electronic music festivals, the city's famous techno scene, the
clandestine dimensions of its nighttime club culture, and the
fraught emergence of the Mediaspree. With the shifting context of
post-Wende Berlin its backdrop, this collection puts into relief an
electic array of case studies, presenting to readers interested in
exploring urban issues a number of critical and analytical
perspectives on the city's cultural life as it moves into the
twenty-first century. Poor, But Sexy is an important contribution
to the critical analysis of the cultural spaces in the city, and
allows readers access to one of the few scholarly overviews of
Berlin's varied cultural life available in English.
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