Lexington Books
Pages: 154
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66694-658-1 • Hardback • July 2024 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-66694-659-8 • eBook • July 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Triauna Carey is lecturer in the English Department at Southern Methodist University.
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
The Revolution Will Be Spotified is at once a massive and yet at times beautifully granular examination of music and its impact on culture, politics, identity, and economics, blending classic ethnomusicology, popular culture, and genre study with theories of rhetoric to produce a fascinating and very relevant discussion of a number of vital issues. The author has put together a masterful survey of intellectual trends and adroitly uses them to discuss the power of music as a mode of social resistance. Readers seeking to understand the almost mythical quality of music to change lives will find this analysis satisfying on many levels, including from an ontological perspective, a personal/political perspective, and a socio-technological perspective. It has the valued charm of being exceedingly well-written and thus easy to read, while also adding much to extant scholarly literature on these interesting topics. The book’s versatility of form and seamless writing flow alone would recommend it; but its timely and topical aspects – on politics, rhetoric, identity, and technology – make The Revolution Will Be Spotified one of the most compelling intellectual works of the season.
— Gregory Selber, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley