Popular Music and the Postcolonial

ISBN-13: 9780367587512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Oliver Lovesey

Opis

Popular Music and the Postcolonial tackles the overlooked connections between popular music, the era of decolonization, and the field of postcolonial studies. It considers music’s role in resisting imperialism and neo-colonialism in the global south and Europe, in liberating hearts and minds, and in advancing cultural decolonization. Th

Spis treści

Introduction - Decolonizing the Ear: Introduction to ‘Popular Music and the Postcolonial’  1. Song for a King’s Exile: Royalism and Popular Music in Postcolonial Uganda  2. Popular Songs and Resistance: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Maitũ Njugĩra  3. Popular Music and the Young Postcolonial State of Cameroon, 1960–1980  4. Edward Said on Popular Music  5. Occitan Music Revitalization as Radical Cultural Activism: From Postcolonial Regionalism to Altermondialisation  6. Irish Republican Music and (Post)colonial Schizophrenia  7. Rapping Postcoloniality: Akala’s "The Thieves Banquet" and Neocolonial Critique  8. Decolonizing Korean Popular Music: The "Japanese Color" Dispute over Trot

O autorze

Oliver Lovesey is a Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada. His most recent publications include The Postcolonial Intellectual (2015) and Postcolonial George Eliot (2017), as well as essays on popular music in Musical Quarterly, Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, and Rock Music Studies.