[ecrea] New Book: Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies

New Book: Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: 
Ideology, control and resistance in Turkey since 2002 (Bloomsbury) by 
Lyndon C.S. Way

I have just had my book published by Bloomsbury and would like to share 
this news. Here is a blurb which sums up the book:

Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, challenge and 
liberate but also to oppress and control. This book asks what is the 
nature of relations between music and meanings, and more specifically, 
between music and political meanings. Can popular music be political? 
What types of popular music work best with politics? What types of 
politics work best with popular music? This book considers the extent 
popular music can articulate ideas about society, identities and events, 
questions which are commonly asked across the field of popular music 
studies.

These issues are explored in this book by considering exactly how 
popular music is perceived by fans to be political. That is, this book 
considers how a song, a video, a concert, a band or any other musical 
commodity conveys meanings about power, politics and identity. By 
answering how this is done, questions about what become clear.

Leaning on Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies (MCDS), this book 
reveals the deeply political role played by some popular music. The book 
demonstrates how MCDS can provide an important and timely step forward 
due to its attention to the details of how communication takes place, 
its interest in discourse and how ideologies are naturalised and 
legitimised.

It is set in contemporary Turkish society, with its complex and deep 
ideological divisions increasingly obvious under the stewardship of 
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his centre-right political party in 
power since 2002. It looks at how the authorities seek to harness and 
control popular music and how a wide range of popular music genres such 
as rock, rap, protest and folk music expressed in official promotional 
videos, protest cut-and-paste offerings, party-political election songs, 
live music events and internet discussions about popular music emerge as 
sites of power and resistance in certain venues and particularly across 
social media.


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