“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying …
Extreme metal--one step beyond heavy metal--can appear bizarre or terrifying to the uninitiated. Extreme metal musicians have developed an often impenetrable sound that …
How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently …
Chapter 1 provided a context within which a study focusing on issues of space, culture and identity in modern Ireland might be undertaken. In this chapter I want to take an overview of …
Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's …
This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are …
Focusing on female idols' proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in …
In an era of the rise of the free market and economic globalization, Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music-a field …
S Cohen - International journal of cultural policy, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores the relationship between rock music, collective memory and local identity, by focusing on events connected to Liverpool's status as European Capital of …