Mixing Pop and Politics (Paperback)

Catherine Hoad

ISBN 10: 0367248093 / ISBN 13: 9780367248093

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 2022

Beschreibung

Paperback. The political has always been part of popular music, but how does that play out in todays 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 todays 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mixing Pop and Politics (Paperback)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0367248093
• ISBN-13: 9780367248093
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Catherine Hoad is Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Creative Media Production at Te Kunenga Ki Pūrehuroa/Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Geoff Stahl is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Media & Communication, Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Oli Wilson is Associate Professor in the College of Creative Arts at Te Kunenga Ki Pūrehuroa/ Massey University, Wellington New Zealand., Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand.