Coastal Environments in Popular Song - Lost Horizons

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.

List of contents

Part 1: Campaigns, protests, and warnings

1. Confucius and the Ethical Edge: Shake it baby now, twist and shout
Paul D. Sladky
2. "Nobody Can Stop the Waves": Constructing the Coast in Dutch Pop Music,
Coco d'Hont
3. Frost or Fire? Popular music responses to Climate Change, 1960-1979
Chris Mounsey
Part 2: Sensuality, romance, and hedonism
4. The sensual coast: eroticism, perception, encounter
Jonathan Day
5. Seaside Ports, Coastal Cities and Tropical Islands Songs of Sex Work and Inequality by the Sea
Natasha Mulvihill
Part 3: Politics, isolation, and nostalgia
6. From Endless Summer to Endless Bummer: The Californian ‘beach song’ from 1962–2020
Glenn Fosbraey
7. Island Logic: Roots Reggae, Rasta, and Post-Colonial Critique
Justin Patch
8. Flotsam and Jetsam: British coastal songs of jettison, discovery, and retrieval (1984-2021)
Kevan Manwaring
9. The Sonically Evoked Spaces of Post Rock in an Era of Climate Reality
Gareth Schott

About the author

Glenn Fosbraey is the Head of English, Creative Writing, and American Studies at The University of Winchester. He has published various books, chapters, and journal articles about the academic study of song lyrics including Writing Song Lyrics (2019), and Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music (2021).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn (University of Winchester Fosbraey
• Assisted by: Glenn Fosbraey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032137957
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213795-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Rock, Popular Culture, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Rock & Pop music, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Pop Music, General and world history, History of the Americas, Popular Music, History and Archaeology