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The Revolution Will Be Spotified investigates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance. Case studies across the genres of popular music in the West are surveyed throughout the book to consider the power of music as a rhetorical tool during cultural flashpoints and times of crisis. Carey analyzes songs such as "This is America" by Childish Gambino, "Alien Superstar" by Beyoncé, "Thought Contagion" by Muse, and more to consider the impact of contemporary music on culture and social justice movements. Scholars of rhetoric and composition, communication, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology will find this book particularly interesting.
List of contents
Chapter I - An Introduction to Music as Rhetorically Organized Sound
Chapter II - Feedback Loops and their Impact on Overtly Resistant Music
Chapter III - The Rhetorical Purposes of Resistance in Contemporary Music
Chapter IV - "Chained to the Rhythm": The Genre of Pop
Chapter V - "Before He Tweets": The Genre of Country
Chapter VI - "This is America": The Genre of Rap and Hip-Hop
Chapter VII - "thoughts and prayers": The Genre of Rock and Alternative
Chapter VIII - Resistance in the Rhetorically Organized Sound of Mainstream Music Prior to the Pandemic
Chapter IX - Rhetorically Organized Sound in a Post-Pandemic Society
Chapter X - The Revolution Will Be Spotified
About the author
Triauna Carey is lecturer in the English Department at Southern Methodist University.
