Pandemic Playlist - An Exploration of Covid-Inspired Popular Music

Pandemic Playlist explores a selection of popular music recorded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing songs by Bono, Cardi B, Kid Rock, Van Morrison, Juvenile and many more. Through rhetorical analysis of these songs, Kevin Farrell considers how the pandemic shaped the music of 2020, 2021, and beyond.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: COVID-19 and Popular Music
Chapter Two: Pandemic Playlists
Chapter Three: The Coronavirus Anthem
Chapter Four: Pandemic Pop
Chapter Five: The COVID Cover
Chapter Six: Pandemic Protest Music
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Kevin Farrell

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Farrell
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2024
• EAN: 9781666942958
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-295-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music