Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of
popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular …

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and
promote violence. Popular music plays a major role in mobilizing citizens, especially youth …

The vast majority of work examining identity and politics in musicology, and in popular music
studies in particular, presumes and sometimes explicitly argues that music is personally and …

This article examines how compositional and performative strategies impact the potency of
environmental song lyrics on Gorillaz's album Plastic Beach. The quality of songfulness is …

The very public downward spiral of Sinead O'Connor's mental health in recent years,
culminating in her public appearance with TV therapist Dr. Phil (2017), the bemused …

This paper deconstructs how religious musical eulogies, as the most important discursive
practices of Shi'a rituals, were used as “war songs” serving to construct the Iranian national …

Campaign themes and protest songs, military marches and national anthems, the blues and
hip‐hop: many types of music play a role in politics. However, many political scientists …

This article explores how Marilyn Manson functions as a transgressive artist, in order to
demonstrate how his persona, music, and music videos cross social, cultural and moral …

Historically arts and politics stand in close relation as most of the revolutionary ideas were
supported by artists. Throughout a Gramscian perspective art has been always politicized if …

Mi principal objetivo con esta tesis es estudiar el poder político y social de la música para
trabajar en favor de la igualdad. Para ello trato de buscar características dominantes que …