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Author Johnson, Bruce, 1943-

Title Dark side of the tune : popular music and violence / Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan
Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages)
Series Ashgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Contents Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Notes and Acknowledgements; About the Authors; List of Abbreviations; Advisory Note; Introduction: Musical Violence and Popular Music Studies; 1 Context: The Sound of Music; 2 Music and Violence in History; 3 Technologized Sonority; 4 Music Accompanying Violence; 5 Music and Incitement to Violence; 6 Music and Arousal to Violence; 7 Music as Violence; 8 Policy; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary This book focuses on the 'dark side' of popular music by examining the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence. Cloonan and Johnson address the physiological and cognitive foundations of sounding/hearing and provide a historical survey of examples of the nexus between music and violence, from (pre)Biblical times to the late nineteenth century. The book also concentrates on the emergence of technologies by which music can be electronically augmented, generated, and disseminated. The authors investigate the implications of this nexus both for popular music stud
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-221), filmography (p. 221) , and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music and violence.
Popular music -- Social aspects
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
Music and violence
Popular music -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Cloonan, Martin.
ISBN 9780754699606
0754699609
0754658724
9780754658726
9781409400493
1409400492
1282261460
9781282261464