1st Edition

Popular Music and the Postcolonial

Edited By Oliver Lovesey Copyright 2019
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Popular Music and the Postcolonial addresses the often-overlooked relationship between the fields of popular music and postcolonial studies, and it has implications for ethnomusicology, cultural and literary studies, history, sociology, and political economy. Popular music in its many forms exploded in popularity, following developments in sound technology and shifting population demographics,... Read more

Introduction - Decolonizing the Ear: Introduction to ‘Popular Music and the Postcolonial’  1. Song for a King’s Exile: Royalism and Popular Music in Postcolonial Uganda  2. Popular Songs and Resistance: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Maitũ Njugĩra  3. Popular Music and the Young Postcolonial State of Cameroon, 1960–1980  4. Edward Said on Popular Music  5. Occitan Music Revitalization as Radical Cultural Activism: From Postcolonial Regionalism to Altermondialisation  6. Irish Republican Music and (Post)colonial Schizophrenia  7. Rapping Postcoloniality: Akala’s "The Thieves Banquet" and Neocolonial Critique  8. Decolonizing Korean Popular Music: The "Japanese Color" Dispute over Trot

Biography

Oliver Lovesey is a Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada. His most recent publications include The Postcolonial Intellectual (2015) and Postcolonial George Eliot (2017), as well as essays on popular music in Musical Quarterly, Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, and Rock Music Studies.