Music as Multimodal Discourse Semiotics, Power and Protest

• Other Authors: Way, Lyndon C. S. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: LONDON Bloomsbury Academic 2017
• Subjects: Music > Political aspects; Music > Semiotics; Music > Social aspects
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We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding music as multimodal discourse / Simon McKerrell and Lyndon C.S. Way
• The role of music in ridiculing the working classes in reality television / GeÌ€oran Eriksson and David Machin
• "Shame makes the world go around" : performed and embodied (gendered) class disgust in Morrissey's "The slum mums" / Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power and Eoin Devereux
• Recontextualization and fascist music / John E. Richardson
• Authenticity and subversion : articulations in protest music videos' struggle with countercultural politics and authenticity / Lyndon C.S. Way
• Sonic logos / Theo van Leeuwen
• "If you have nothing to say
• sing it!" : on the interplay of music, voice and lyrics in the advertising jingle / Johnny Wingstedt
• When the fairy tale is over : an analysis of songs and institutional discourse against domestic violence in Spain / Laura Filardo-Llamas
• Indigenous hip hop as anti-colonial discourse in Guatemala / Rusty Barrett
• Song, sonic metaphor, and countercultural discourse in British folk-rock recordings / Matthew Ord.