Book Review: Dario Martinelli (2017). Give Peace a Chant: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest. Springer, 161 Pgs.

International Journal of Marketing Semiotics Vol. V (2017), pp. 22-26.

5 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2017

Date Written: August 22, 2017

Abstract

Give Peace a Chant promises to carve a new genre in popular music studies, namely songs of social protest (SSP). Martinelli invents a new genre by positing ideology as the main platform on which songs from various strictly musically speaking genres (e.g. folk, punk etc.) may be hypertextually stringed. Thus, he prioritizes the contextual use of music and its pragmatic contours as the springboard for venturing into a retheorizing of the social function(s) of music, beyond lyrical disposition and musical orientation while considering the latter as essential complements of SSP.

Keywords: music studies, semiotics

Suggested Citation

Rossolatos, George, Book Review: Dario Martinelli (2017). Give Peace a Chant: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest. Springer, 161 Pgs. (August 22, 2017). International Journal of Marketing Semiotics Vol. V (2017), pp. 22-26., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3076289

George Rossolatos (Contact Author)

University of Kassel ( email )

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34109 Kassel, Hessen 34127
Germany

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