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The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror

The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror

Paperback

Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music

AnthropologyPop/Rock

ISBN10: 1138273414
ISBN13: 9781138273412
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 17 2016
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Seeking to extend discussions of 9/11 music beyond the acts typically associated with the September 11th attacksU2, Toby Keith, The Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteenthis collection interrogates the politics of a variety of post-9/11 music scenes. Contributors add an aural dimension to what has been a visual conceptualization of this important moment in US history by articulating the role that lesser-known contemporary musicians have playedor have refused to playin constructing a politics of protest in direct response to the trauma inflicted that day. Encouraging new conceptualizations of what constitutes 'political music, ' The Politics of Post-9/11 Music covers topics as diverse as the rise of Internet music distribution, Christian punk rock, rap music in the Obama era, and nostalgia for 1960s political activism

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