Music is the Weapon of the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music is the Weapon of the Future write by Frank Tenaille. This book was released on 2002. Music is the Weapon of the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story of African popular music, or Afropop, and its relationship to Africa's social and political milieu over the past 50 years, by presenting in-depth portraits of thirty important African musicians.
Playing it Queer
Playing it Queer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing it Queer write by Jodie Taylor. This book was released on 2012. Playing it Queer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allows us to glimpse otherworldliness, arousing the political imagination. With an activist voice that is impassioned yet adherent to scholarly rigour, Playing it Queer provides an original and compelling ethnographic account of the relationship between popular music, queer self-fashioning and (sub)cultural world-making. This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style. Contextualised within a detailed history of queer sensibilities and creative practices, including camp, drag, genderfuck, queercore, feminist music and club cultures, the author's rich empirical studies of local performers and translocal scenes intimately capture the meaning and value of popular musics and (sub)cultural style in everyday queer lives.
Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena
Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena write by Onyebadi, Uche T.. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political campaigning affects numerous realms under the communication umbrella with each channel seeking to influence as many individuals as possible. In higher education, there is a growing scholarly interest in communication issues and subjects, especially on the role of music, in the political arena. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena provides innovative insights into providing music and songs as an integral part of sending political messages to a broader spectrum of audiences, especially during political campaigns. The content within this publication covers such topics as framing theory, national identity, and ethnic politics, and is designed for politicians, campaign managers, political communication scholars, researchers, and students.
Pop Grenade
Pop Grenade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pop Grenade write by Matthew Collin. This book was released on 2015-05-29. Pop Grenade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An adrenalin-charged trip through some of the cultural flashpoints of the past few decades, Pop Grenade celebrates the power of music as a force for change. Based on first-hand, personal reportage from raves, riots and rebellions, it explores how music has been used as a weapon in struggles for liberation and attempts to create temporary paradises. From Berlin’s anarchic techno scene after the fall of the Wall to outlaw sound systems in wartime Bosnia, from Moscow during the crackdown on Pussy Riot to New York in the militant early years of hip-hop, it tells the extraordinary stories of some of the world’s most audacious musical freedom fighters, disco visionaries and rock’n’roll rebels with a cause.
Circular Breathing
Circular Breathing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Circular Breathing write by George McKay. This book was released on 2005-11-23. Circular Breathing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Circular Breathing, George McKay, a leading chronicler of British countercultures, uncovers the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain. Examining jazz from the founding of George Webb’s Dixielanders in 1943 through the burgeoning British bebop scene of the early 1950s, the Beaulieu Jazz Festivals of 1956–61, and the improvisational music making of the 1960s and 1970s, McKay reveals the connections of the music, its players, and its subcultures to black and antiracist activism, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, feminism, and the New Left. In the process, he provides the first detailed cultural history of jazz in Britain. McKay explores the music in relation to issues of whiteness, blackness, and masculinity—all against a backdrop of shifting imperial identities, postcolonialism, and the Cold War. He considers objections to the music’s spread by the “anti-jazzers” alongside the ambivalence felt by many leftist musicians about playing an “all-American” musical form. At the same time, McKay highlights the extraordinary cultural mixing that has defined British jazz since the 1950s, as musicians from Britain’s former colonies—particularly from the Caribbean and South Africa—have transformed the genre. Circular Breathing is enriched by McKay’s original interviews with activists, musicians, and fans and by fascinating images, including works by the renowned English jazz photographer Val Wilmer. It is an invaluable look at not only the history of jazz but also the Left and race relations in Great Britain.
