Popular music and multimodal critical discourse studies : ideology, control and resistance in Turkey since 2002 /

Popular music and multimodal critical discourse studies : ideology, control and resistance in Turkey since 2002 /

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Author / Creator:	Way, Lyndon C. S., author.
Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. ©2018
Description:	ix, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies.
Subject:	Popular music -- Political aspects -- Turkey. Popular music -- Political aspects. Turkey.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11398741

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ISBN:	9781350016446 1350016446
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, to challenge and liberate but also to oppress and control. This book shows how an innovative set of methods from Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies (MCDS) can be used to reveal the deeply political role played by some popular music. It is set in and around 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. Deeper questions can be asked as to the extent popular music can articulate clear and more complex ideas about society, identities and events. The book takes up these kinds of questions which are commonly asked across the field of popular music studies and demonstrates how MCDS can provide an important and timely step forward due to its attention to the details of how communication takes place, its interest in discourse and how ideologies are naturalised and legitimized. This book is a part of the ongoing multimodal turn in critical discourse studies. There has also been an increase in interest specifically in popular music in CDS, stemming from the work of Van Leeuwen and Machin. This work shows the potential of studying the details of the lyrics of popular music, visuals associated with songs (as seen in pop videos) and musical sounds.
Other form:	Online version: Way, Lyndon C.S. Popular music and multimodal critical discourse studies. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781350016453

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	ix, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781350016446 1350016446