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Singin' Bout a Revolution: Children's Musical Activism and Changing Times

Autor Kai Arne Hansen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 ian 2027
Against the backdrop of significant cultural upheaval and increasing political polarization in recent years, children and young people from around the world have found diverse ways of using music to critique injustice, envision social change, and demand political action. Challenging common views of children's music as trivial and unimportant, Singin' Bout a Revolution explores the multiple implications of children's musical activism: young musicians' engagement with some of the most urgent social and political issues of the present day, from environmental crisis and war to racism and mental health stigma. Combining a critical musicological approach with perspectives from childhood studies, cultural studies, media studies, and related fields, author Kai Arne Hansen examines young musicians' songs, music videos, live performances, social media posts, and more alongside the public discourse surrounding these artists, their music, and their activism. Directing serious attention to young musicians' responses to an ever-changing world, as well as to how the world responds to them, Hansen argues that the myriad ways in which music is weaved into the cultural, social, and political fabrics of our lives make the musical sphere a particularly fruitful context for rethinking dominant ideas about children's agency, knowledge, and power. Ultimately, Singin' Bout a Revolution highlights the rich complexity of children's relationships with popular music, public culture, and politics, thereby encouraging readers to think anew about what children can do with music and what music can do for them.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197818923
ISBN-10: 0197818927
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 23 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Singin' Bout a Revolution makes vital contributions to the growing literature on children's activism by drawing much-needed attention to the aesthetic, affective, and creative dimensions of children's political practices. Hansen's deep respect for children as producers of knowledge is profound - he takes children's musical interventions seriously, subjecting their work to the detailed critical analysis it deserves, while illuminating how dominant ideas about childhood structure the conflicting public response to these youthful interventions. Exciting, deeply researched, and thoroughly pleasurable to read, this book shows how children's musical activism can spark our imaginations, produce new perspectives and feelings, and transform our understanding of childhood itself.
From the intersecting fields of popular music, childhood studies, and politics comes this critical analysis of children's musical activism: the ways that children and young people use music to express their sentiments on contemporary social and political issues. In Singin' Bout a Revolution, Kai Arne Hansen deftly explores and colorfully illustrates the capacity of young players, singers, and songwriters to voice their thoughtful views of pressing cultural circumstances both local and global, and to sound the alarm on wars, social injustices, and environmental crises that are impacting their daily lives. The work is engaging and insightful, erudite yet accessible, and an important read for all who seek to understand children and youth for their critical thought and creative musical practice.

Notă biografică

Kai Arne Hansen is Professor of Music in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Inland Norway, specializing in the study of popular music and its cultural, social, and political meanings. He is the author of Pop Masculinities: The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music, also published by Oxford University Press.