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
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