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This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects
of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and
anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about
love, dancing, and break-ups - all while satisfying its primary
remit of being entertaining and listenable. Nearly a thousand books
have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter's
Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in
the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused
itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes
as 'central to the construction of [our] identities, central to
[our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore,
central to [our] social relations'. This edited collection examines
popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate
change. Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for
students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics,
social history, and the history of music.
This book critically analyses Eminem's studio album releases from
his first commercial album release The Slim Shady LP in 1999, to
2020's Music To Be Murdered By, through the lens of storytelling,
truth and rhetoric, narrative structure, rhyme scheme and type,
perspective, and celebrity culture. In terms of lyrical content, no
area has been off-limits to Eminem, and he has written about
domestic violence, murder, rape, child abuse, incest, drug
addiction, and torture during his career. But whilst he will always
be associated with these dark subjects, Mathers has also explored
fatherhood, bereavement, mental illness, poverty, friendship, and
love within his lyrics, and the juxtaposition between these very
different themes (sometimes within the same song), make his lyrics
complex, deep, and deserving of proper critical discussion. The
first full-length monograph concerning Eminem's lyrics, this book
affords the same rigorous analysis to a hip-hop artist as would be
applied to any great writer's body of work; such analysis of
'popular' music is often overlooked. In addition to his rich
exploration of Eminem's lyrics, Fosbraey furthermore delves into a
variety of different aspects within popular music including
extra-verbal elements, image, video, and surrounding culture. This
critical study of his work will be an invaluable resource to
academics working in the fields of Popular Music, English
Literature, or Cultural Studies.
This book presents chapters that have been brought together to
consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts
on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic
masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters
consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music
styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are
maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The
interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout
the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music
as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres
from outside western Europe and North America that are often
ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring
in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under
other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.
This book presents chapters that have been brought together to
consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts
on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic
masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters
consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music
styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are
maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The
interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout
the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music
as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres
from outside western Europe and North America that are often
ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring
in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under
other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.
This book is unique in offering practical advice on writing song
lyrics within a critically informed framework. Part I provides the
theoretical underpinning, while Part II covers the creative
process, pulling together all the best songwriting advice and
offering practical exercises. Fusing creative guidance with
rigorous criticism, this is an essential companion for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of songwriting, creative
writing and music. Lively and accessible, it is a one-stop shop for
all aspiring songwriters.
This book is unique in offering practical advice on writing song
lyrics within a critically informed framework. Part I provides the
theoretical underpinning, while Part II covers the creative
process, pulling together all the best songwriting advice and
offering practical exercises. Fusing creative guidance with
rigorous criticism, this is an essential companion for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of songwriting, creative
writing and music. Lively and accessible, it is a one-stop shop for
all aspiring songwriters.
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