This Is The Sound Of Irony Music Politics And Popular Culture

Author : Katherine L. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317010548

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This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture by Katherine L. Turner Pdf

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business of making music and the politics of messaging. Contributors to this collection address a variety of musical ironies found in the ’notes themselves,’ in the text or subtext, and through performance, reception and criticism. The chapters explore the linkages between irony and the comic, the tragic, the remembered, the forgotten, the co-opted, and the resistant. From the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, through America, Europe and Asia, this provocative range of ironies course through issues of race, religion, class, the political left and right, country, punk, hip hop, folk, rock, easy listening, opera and the technologies that make possible our pop music experience. This interdisciplinary volume creates new methodologies and applies existing theories of irony to musical works that have made a cultural or political impact through the use of this most multifaceted of devices.

Author : Katherine L. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Irony in music
ISBN : 1315551071

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This is the Sound of Irony by Katherine L. Turner Pdf

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr,Herbert L. Colston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108968676

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The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr,Herbert L. Colston Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience; irony's impact (both personal and in social life); irony in linguistic communication; irony and affect, and irony in expressive contexts. Contributions come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, computer science, film and media studies, and music, making this a truly cross-disciplinary collection of benefit to a wide range of students and researchers.

Author : Ian Kinane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000377019

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Isn't it Ironic? by Ian Kinane Pdf

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of irony in contemporary popular culture, and explores the troubling political populism at the heart of many supposedly satirical and (apparently) non-satirical texts. In an environment in which irony is frequently claimed as a defence for material and behaviour judged controversial, how do we, as a society entrenched in forms of popular culture and media, interpret work that is intended as satire but which reads as unironic? How do we accurately decode works of popular film, literature, television, music, and other cultural forms which sell themselves as bitingly ironic commentaries on current society, but which are also problematic celebrations of the very issues they purport to critique? And what happens when texts intended and received in one manner are themselves ironically recontextualised in another? Bringing together studies across a range of cultural texts including popular music, film and television, Isn’t it Ironic? will appeal to scholars of the social sciences and humanities with interests in cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literary studies and sociology.

Author : Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501342349

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis by Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins Pdf

Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in everyday life, music videos offer profound cultural interventions and negotiations while traversing a range of media forms. From a variety of unique perspectives, the contributors to this volume undertake discussions that open up new avenues for exploring the creative changes and developments in music video production. With chapters that address music video authorship, distribution, cultural representations, mediations, aesthetics, and discourses, this study signals a major initiative to provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis of this popular and influential musical form.

Author : Liz Giuffre,Philip Hayward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317273578

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Music in Comedy Television by Liz Giuffre,Philip Hayward Pdf

The study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genre of comedy television as it relates to music. Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs fills that gap, breaking new critical ground. With contributions from an array of established and emerging scholars representing a range of disciplines, the twelve essays included cover a wide variety of topics and television shows, spanning nearly fifty years across network, cable, and online structures and capturing the latest research in this growing area of study. From Sesame Street to Saturday Night Live, from Monty Python to Flight of the Conchords, this book offers the perfect introduction for students and scholars in music and media studies seeking to understand the role of music in comedy onscreen and how it relates to the wider culture.

Author : Mary I. Arlin,Mark A. Radice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351974042

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Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung by Mary I. Arlin,Mark A. Radice Pdf

The displacement of Chou Wen-chung from his native China in 1948 forced him into Western-European culture. Ultimately finding his vocation as a composer, he familiarized himself with classical and contemporary techniques but interpreted these through his traditionally oriented Chinese cultural perspective. The result has been the composition of a unique body of repertoire that synthesizes the most progressive Western compositional idioms with an astonishingly traditional heritage of Asian approaches, not only from music, but also from calligraphy, landscape painting, poetry, and more. Chou’s importance rests not only in his compositions, but also in his widespread influence through his extensive teaching career at Columbia University, where his many students included Bright Sheng, Zhou Long, Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, and many more. During his tenure at Columbia, he also founded the U.S.-China Arts Exchange, which continues to this day to be a vital stimulus for multicultural interaction. The volume will include an inventory of the Chou collection in the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.

Author : Henrik G. Bastiansen,Martin Klimke,Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319983820

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Media and the Cold War in the 1980s by Henrik G. Bastiansen,Martin Klimke,Rolf Werenskjold Pdf

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people—and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how this struggle played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such as Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program and Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost captured the world’s attention. Ranging from the United States to the Soviet Union and China, these essays cover photojournalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk, Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and more, concluding with a contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the creators of the iconic “Tank Man” image during the Tiananmen Square protests. By investigating an array of media actors and networks, as well as narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level, this volume lays the groundwork for writing media into the history of the late Cold War.

Author : Wayne Yuen
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812699159

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The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy by Wayne Yuen Pdf

In The Walking Dead, human beings are pushed to their limits by a zombie apocalypse and have to decide what really matters. Good and evil, freedom and slavery, when one life has to be sacrificed for another, even the nature of religion—all the ultimate questions of human existence are posed afresh as the old society crumbles away and a new form of society emerges, with new beliefs and new rules. The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy brings together twenty philosophers with different perspectives on the imagined world of this addictive TV show. How can we keep our humanity when faced with such extreme life-or-death choices? Did Dr. Jenner do the right thing in committing suicide, when all hope seemed to be lost? Does the Governor, as the new Machiavelli, prove that willingness to repeatedly commit murder is the best technique for getting and keeping political power? Why do most characters place such importance on keeping particular individuals alive, especially children? What can we learn about reality from Rick’s haunting hallucinations?

Author : Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf,Stephan Milich
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839440698

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Creative Resistance by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf,Stephan Milich Pdf

During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, music, caricatures, cartoons, comics and puppet shows were further distributed in the social media. This first comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes humorous forms of cultural expression and their impact on socio-political developments in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on the changing modes of humor.

Author : Knut Holtsträter,Sascha Pöhlmann
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783830997566

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Americana by Knut Holtsträter,Sascha Pöhlmann Pdf

The essay collection Americana poses the basic question of how American music can be described and analyzed as such, as American music. Situated at the intersection between musicology and American Studies, the essays focus on the categories of aesthetics, authenticity, and performance in order to show how popular music is made American-from Alaskan hip hop to German Schlager, from Creedence Clearwater Revival to film scores, from popular opera to U2, from the Rolling Stones to country rap, and from Steve Earle to the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.

Author : Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108484589

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German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940 by Derek B. Scott Pdf

Uncovers a world of forgotten triumphs of musical theatre that shine a light on major social topics. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Scott A. Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476620060

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Music at the Extremes by Scott A. Wilson Pdf

Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being played and audiences continue to engage with innovative artists. This collection of fresh essays gathers together critical writing on such genres as Power Electronics, Black Metal, Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial, Hard-Core Punk and Horrorcore. The contributors report from the periphery of the music world, seeking to understand these new genres, how fans connect with artists and how artists engage with their audiences. Diverse music scenes are covered, from small-town New Zealand to Washington, D.C., and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists discussed include Coil, Laibach, Whitehouse, Insane Clown Posse, Wolves in the Throne Room, Turisas, Tyr, GG Allin and many others.

Author : Dave Randall
Publisher : Left Book Club
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 0745399304

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Sound System by Dave Randall Pdf

The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129755786

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British Humanities Index by Anonim Pdf