This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable.
Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter’s Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as ‘central to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relations’. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change.
Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics, social history, and the history of music.
Author(s): Glenn Fosbraey
Series: Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 183
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors’ Biographies
Introduction
Part 1 Campaigns, Protests, and Warnings
1 Confucius and the Ethical Edge: Shake It Baby Now, Twist and Shout
2 “Nobody Can Stop the Waves”: Constructing the Coast in Dutch Pop Music
3 Frost or Fire? Popular Music Responses to Climate Change, From Woodstock to Glastonbury
Part 2 Sensuality, Romance, and Hedonism
4 The Sensual Coast: Eroticism, Perception, Encounter
5 Seaside Ports, Coastal Cities and Tropical Islands: Songs of Sex Work and Inequality by the Sea
Part 3 Politics, Isolation, and Nostalgia
6 From Endless Summer to Endless Bummer: The Californian ‘Beach Song’ From The Beach Boys to Weezer
7 Island Logic: Roots Reggae, Rasta, and Postcolonial Critique
8 Flotsam and Jetsam: British Coastal Songs of Jettison, Discovery, and Retrieval (1984–2021)
9 The Sonically Evoked Spaces of Post-Rock in an Era of Climate Reality
Index
