Coastal Environments in Popular Song: Lost Horizons
Glenn Fosbraey, "Coastal Environments in Popular Song: Lost Horizons "
English | ISBN: 1032137959 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032137959 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable.
Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter’s Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as ‘central to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relations’. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change.
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