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When Music Migrates

Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010

By: Professor Jon Stratton

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When Music Migrates

Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010

By: Professor Jon Stratton

When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them. This development, which can be thought of in terms of diaspora, can also be thought of as postmodern in that it reverses the modern flow which took colonizers, and sometimes settlers, from European countries to other places in the world. Stratton explores the concept of ‘song careers’, referring to how a song is picked up and then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in different cultural contexts. The idea of the song career extends the descriptive term ‘cover’ in order to examine the transformations a song undergoes from artist to artist and cultural context to cultural context. Stratton focuses on the British faultline between the post-war African-Caribbean settlers and the white Britons. Central to the book is the question of identity. For example, how African-Caribbean people have constructed their identity in Britain can be considered through an examination of when ‘Police on My Back’ was written and how it has been revisioned by Lethal Bizzle in its most recent iteration. At the same time, this song, written by the Guyanese migrant Eddy Grant for his mixed-race group The Equals, crossed the racial faultline when it was picked up by the punk-rock group, The Clash. Conversely, ‘Johnny Reggae’, originally a pop-ska track written about a skinhead by Jonathan King and performed by a group of studio artists whom King named The Piglets, was revisioned by a Jamaican studio group called The Roosevelt Singers. After this, the character of Johnny Reggae takes on a life of his own and appears in tracks by Jamaican toasters as a Rastafarian. Johnny’s identity is, then, totally transformed. It is this migration of music that will appeal not only to those studying popular music, but also cultural studies and race.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147242980X

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Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song

By: Professor Allan F Moore

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Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song

By: Professor Allan F Moore

Allan F. Moore presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s through to the present day. Analysis and interpretation are treated as separable but interdependent approaches to song. Analytical theory is revisited, covering conventional domains such as harmony, melody and rhythm, but does not privilege these at the expense of domains such as texture, the soundbox, vocal tone, lyrics. Moore continues by developing a range of hermeneutic strategies largely drawn from outside the field (in the most part, within psychology and philosophy) but still deeply relevant to the experience of song.

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1409495248

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9781409495246

The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

By: Professor Steven Connor,Steven Connor

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The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

By: Professor Steven Connor,Steven Connor

Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William Golding * Angela Carter * Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo * Hanif Kureishi * Marina Warner * Maggie Gee Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.

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Routledge

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1134908563

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9781134908561

News and the Net

By: Barrie Gunter,Emeritus Professor in Media and Communication Barrie Gunter

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News and the Net

By: Barrie Gunter,Emeritus Professor in Media and Communication Barrie Gunter

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135625964

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When Music Migrates

Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010

By: Professor Jon Stratton

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Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010

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When Music Migrates

When Music Migrates

Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song

Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song

The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present

News and the Net

News and the Net

When Music Migrates

When Music Migrates

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