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Adorno, Theodor W., (1903-1969.)

Popular music, critique and Manic Street Preachers

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Popular music, critique and Manic Street Preachersby Mathijs Peters.
Author:	Peters, Mathijs.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xv, 442 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Popular musicPhilosophy and aesthetics.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43100-6
ISBN:	9783030431006$q(electronic bk.)

Popular music, critique and Manic Street Preachers
Peters, Mathijs.

Popular music, critique and Manic Street Preachers[electronic resource] /by Mathijs Peters. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xv, 442 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Making Music Redundant -- 2. An Exclusive Language -- 3. The Windowless Monad -- 4. Detournement, Subjectivity and Popular Modernism: Generation Terrorists, Gold Against the Soul andThe Holy Bible -- 5. Embodiment and Self-Overcoming: Everything Must Go, 'Judge Yr'Self' and Journal for Plague Lovers -- 6. Marxist Specters and Alternative Futures: Everything Must Go, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Know Your Enemy and Lifeblood -- 7. Locality and Internationality: Rewind the Film and Futurology -- 8. Conclusion.

This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical content to defend the provocative claim that the Welsh band pushes the critical message shaped in their lyrics to the forefront. Their music, this suggests, along with sleeve art, body-art, video-clips, clothes, interviews and performances, serves to emphasise this critical message and the primary role played by the band's lyrics. Blending the disciplines of popular music studies, culture studies and philosophy, Peters confronts the ideas of German philosopher and social critic Theodor W. Adorno with the entire catalogue of Manic Street Preachers, from their 1988 single 'Suicide Alley' to their 2018 album Resistance is Futile. Although Adorno argues that popular music is unable to resist the standardising machinery of consumption culture, Peters paradoxically uses his ideas to show that Manic Street Preachers releases shape 'critical models' with which to formulate social and political critique. This notion of the 'critical model' enables Peters to argue that the catalogue of Manic Street Preachers critically addresses a wide range of themes, from totalitarianism to Holocaust representation, postmodern temporality to Europeanism, and from Nietzsche's ideas about self-overcoming to reflections on digimodernism and post-truth politics. The book therefore persuasively shows that Manic Street Preacher lyrics constitute an intertextual network of links between diverse cultural and political phenomena, encouraging listeners to critically reflect on the structures that shape our lives.

ISBN: 9783030431006$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-43100-6doiSubjects--Personal Names:

187620
Adorno, Theodor W.,
1903-1969.Subjects--Corporate Names:

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Manic Street Preachers (Musical group)
Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Popular music
--Philosophy and aesthetics.

LC Class. No.: ML421.M346 / P484 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 782.421660922

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