This Is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture

Summary

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, irony in popular music being especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business of making music and the politics of messaging. Contributors to this collection address a variety of musical ironies found in the ’notes themselves,’ in

Product details

• Authors: Katherine L. Turner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367599287
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59928-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Rock, Music, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology