Down with Childhood
Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence
Seiten
2017
Repeater Books (Verlag)
978-1-910924-49-5 (ISBN)
Repeater Books (Verlag)
978-1-910924-49-5 (ISBN)
A study of the ways in which childhood, and societal anxieties about children, are reflected in popular music and culture
Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth and inner-children, the fascination with juvenilia amidst an ebbing UK rave scene and dozens of nursery rhyme hip-hop choruses spawned by a hit Jay-Z tune.As it examines the often complex sets of meanings to which the occasional presence of children in pop songs attests, the book pauses at Musical Youth's 'Pass the Dutchie' and other one-hit teen wonders, the career paths of child stars including Michael Jackson and Britney Spears, radical experiments in free jazz, and Black Panther influenced children's soul groups.In the process, a novel argument begins to emerge relating the often remarked crisis of childhood to changing experiences of work and play and ultimately, to an ongoing capitalist crisis that underlies them.
Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth and inner-children, the fascination with juvenilia amidst an ebbing UK rave scene and dozens of nursery rhyme hip-hop choruses spawned by a hit Jay-Z tune.As it examines the often complex sets of meanings to which the occasional presence of children in pop songs attests, the book pauses at Musical Youth's 'Pass the Dutchie' and other one-hit teen wonders, the career paths of child stars including Michael Jackson and Britney Spears, radical experiments in free jazz, and Black Panther influenced children's soul groups.In the process, a novel argument begins to emerge relating the often remarked crisis of childhood to changing experiences of work and play and ultimately, to an ongoing capitalist crisis that underlies them.
Paul Rekret is Associate Professor in Politics at Richmond American International University. He has published widely on contemporary cultural and political theory and has written on pop music for The Quietus and Cesura//Acceso,among others. He is producer and host of 'Beholder Halfway', a series of radio essays airing regularly on Resonance.Extra.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 100 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-910924-49-0 / 1910924490 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-910924-49-5 / 9781910924495 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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