Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Ideology, Control and resistance in Turkey since 2002 (Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies) - Softcover

Way, Lyndon C. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350118990 ISBN 13: 9781350118997

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, challenge and liberate but also to oppress and control. Can popular music be political? What types of popular music work best with politics? How can songs, videos, concerts or any other musical commodity convey ideas about power, politics and identity?

Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies (MCDS), this book reveals the deeply political role played by popular music. Lyndon Way demonstrates how MCDS can provide important and timely insights on the political nature of popular music, due to its focus on how communication takes place, as well as its interest in discourse and how ideologies are naturalised and legitimised.

The book considers the example of contemporary Turkish society, with its complex and deep ideological divisions increasingly obvious under the stewardship of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his centre-right political party, in power since 2002. It looks at how the authorities seek to harness and control popular music and considers a wide range of popular music genres including rock, rap, protest and folk music. It shows how official promotional videos, protest cut-and-paste offerings, party-political election songs, live music events and internet discussions about popular music emerge as sites of power and resistance in certain venues and particularly across social media. Throughout the book, Lyndon Way shows that popular music is also deeply political.

About this title

About the Authors

Lyndon C. S. Way is Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media, School of the Arts, at the University of Liverpool, UK

David Machin is Professor of Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden.

JOHN E. RICHARDSON is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK.

Michal Krzyzanowski is Chair in Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University, Sweden and Chair in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350118990
• ISBN 13: 9781350118997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216