This Patti Smith song was the fuse that ignited this Special Issue. We would like to acknowledge that 2021, like the year before it, has been a very difficult time for many. The impacts of COVID-19 ...continue to be globally significant, and countries, cities and communities continue to grapple with its spread. This Special Issue centres on popular music and particularly on music as an expression of power in the face of social problems. While none of the articles included here relate directly to...
Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest examines how the Eurovision Song Contest has reflected and become intertwined with the history of postwar Europe from a political perspective.
...Established in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is the world's largest popular music event and one of the most popular television programmes in Europe, currently attracting a global audience of around 200 million people. Eurovision is often mocked as cultural kitsch because of its over-the-top performances and frivolous song lyrics. Yet there is no cultural medium that connects Europeans more than popular music, the development of which has always been tied to cultural, economic, political, social and technological change - making Eurovision the ideal tool to explain the history of Europe in the last sixty years. This book uses Eurovision as a vehicle to address topics ranging from the Cold War, liberal democracy and communism to nationalism, European integration, economic prosperity and human rights. It analyses these subjects through their cultural, political and social relationships with Eurovision entries as expressed through lyrics and music, as well as by examining public debates that have accompanied the selection of the entries and the organisation of the contest itself. Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest also considers how states have used Eurovision to define their identities in a European context, be it to assert their national distinctiveness, highlight political issues or affirm their Europeanism or Euroscepticism in the context of European integration.
Based on original sources, including hitherto unpublished archival documents from international broadcasting organisations, this is a novel historical study of interest to anyone keen to know more about the postwar history of Europe and its cultural history in particular.
"Popayán en las canciones de Sergio Rojas Fajardo" es un libro que pretende acercar al lector al conocimiento de la vida y la obra de este compositor payanés (Popayán 1920 - Bogotá 1993), y mostrar ...como plasmó en doce de sus creaciones su admiración por cada rincón de la ciudad que lo vio nacer gracias al dominio del lenguaje descriptivo con el que bosquejó sus ideas. Sergio Rojas fue ingeniero civil, intérprete de la guitarra, la bandola, el tiple e intérprete vocal. En su obra le cantó al Valle de Pubén, La Ermita, al Puente del Humilladero, en fin, puede decirse que sus canciones son un viaje musical por los diversos lugares históricos de la ciudad de Popayán. Este libro es un estudio que aborda el campo de la recuperación de la memoria histórica y visibiliza las músicas que son testimonio del patrimonio inmaterial, histórico y cultural de la ciudad. Presenta un esbozo biográfico del compositor, un catálogo de sus composiciones, complementado con el análisis musical de las doce obras seleccionadas para este estudio. Ofrece algunos referentes históricos de los lugares que fueron motivo de inspiración y quedaron plasmados en la prosa de sus creaciones. Incluye una amplia galería de fotos y un cancionero que contiene la transcripción de las melodías, cifrados y la letra de las canciones El libro se acompaña de un CD con las composiciones en versiones orquestadas para diversos formatos musicales, realizados por docentes del departamento de Música de la Universidad del Cauca. Este trabajo ha sido realizado por el Grupo de Investigación Soncolombia en el año del centenario del nacimiento de este ilustre compositor payanés.
How music embodies and contributes to historical and
contemporary nationalism
What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the
relationship between national and regional identity building? How
...do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state
and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and
regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore
these and other essential questions from a range of
interdisciplinary vantage points. The essays pay particular
attention to the role played by the state in deciding what music
represents Portuguese or Spanish identity. Case studies examine
many aspects of the issue, including local recording networks,
so-called national style in popular music, and music's role in both
political protest and heritage regimes. Topics include the ways the
Salazar and Franco regimes adapted music to align with their
ideological agendas; the twenty-first-century impact of UNESCO's
Intangible Cultural Heritage program on some of Portugal and
Spain's expressive practices; and the tensions that arise between
institutions and community in creating and recreating meanings and
identity around music.
Contributors: Ricardo Andrade, Vera Marques
Alves, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero,
José Hugo Pires Castro, Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Fernán del Val,
Héctor Fouce, Diego García-Peinazo, Leonor Losa, Josep Martí, Eva
Moreda Rodríguez, Pedro Russo Moreira, Cristina Cruces Roldán, and
Igor Contreras Zubillaga
We Shall Not Be Moved: The Trail Blazed by a Song from the U.S. South to Spain and South America details the history of "We Shall Not Be Moved" from its birth as a slave spiritual in the U.S. South ...and its subsequent adoption as a standard hymn by the U.S. labor, civil rights, and farmworker movements, to its singing in the student movement opposing the Franco dictatorship in Spain in the 1960s, and finally to its arrival in the South American country of Chile during its experiment with democratic socialism in the early 1970s. The book outlines the role the song has played in each of the movements in which it has been sung and analyzes its dissemination, function, and meaning through a number of different sociological and anthropological lenses.
Black Lives Matter and Music Fernando Orejuela, Stephanie Shonekan / Fernando Orejuela, Stephanie Shonekan
2018, 2018-08-10
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Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar's "Alright, " J. Cole's "Be Free, " D'Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade, ..." The Game's "Don't Shoot, " Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout, " Usher's "Chains, " and many others serving as unofficial anthems and soundtracks for members and allies of the movement. In this collection of critical studies, contributors draw from ethnographic research and personal encounters to illustrate how scholarly research of, approaches to, and teaching about the role of music in the Black Lives Matter movement can contribute to public awareness of the social, economic, political, scientific, and other forms of injustices in our society. Each chapter in Black Lives Matter and Music focuses on a particular case study, with the goal to inspire and facilitate productive dialogues among scholars, students, and the communities we study. From nuanced snapshots of how African American musical genres have flourished in different cities and the role of these genres in local activism, to explorations of musical pedagogy on the American college campus, readers will be challenged to think of how activism and social justice work might appear in American higher education and in academic research. Black Lives Matter and Music provokes us to examine how we teach, how we conduct research, and ultimately, how we should think about the ways that black struggle, liberation, and identity have evolved in the United States and around the world.
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