Music

Review – International Relations, Music and Diplomacy

M.I. Franklin • Aug 5 2021 • Features

This volume contributes to explorations of the scholarly intertwining of inquiries into the performing arts, (popular) culture, and IR as conjoined fields of study.

Punk AF: Resisting Postmodern Interpretations of Punk Culture in World Politics

Patterson Deppen • Jan 21 2021 • Articles

Regarding punk as symbolic of postmodernity creates a misleading narrative that punk culture, despite its structural whiteness, was anti-racist, counter-hegemonic, and socio-politically resistant.

‘A Technocracy of Sensuousness’: Music Video in International Politics

Catherine Baker • Apr 20 2018 • Articles

Music video not just encourages but forces scholars of music in world politics to go beyond the places where references to the political are easy to find.

Sounds of War: ‘Lie’

Susanna Hast • Apr 6 2018 • Articles

Musistance is a human revolution, subverting hegemonic and violent practices. It is a politics of love and compassion that emerged from encounters with the heaven of life amidst the hell of war in Chechnya.

Pop-Culture and Trump, Part 3: Roger Waters Vs. The Big Man, Pig Man

Robert A. Saunders • Jan 4 2018 • Articles

The Us + Them tour represents the current pinnacle in the meeting of pop-culture and global politics, as Waters has mobilised his political fervour for the world stage.

International Relations of ‘A Tribe Called Red’

Ajay Parasram • Jul 25 2017 • Articles

Turtle Island–based electric-pow-wow superstars, A Tribe Called Red, allows students and scholars of IR to experience what a decolonial IR might look and sound like.

(De)Civilizing Processes, Music, and Experiencing Violence

Dillon Tatum • May 30 2016 • Articles

Music, as a textual artifact, can tell us a lot about the way that politics is experienced. It’s time we recognized such texts as mosaics that challenge narratives.

What Does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like?

Matt Davies and Marianna I. Franklin • Jun 9 2015 • Articles

Music and music-making can enhance a body of work that looks to de-reify received analytical categories of the discipline and thereby continue to enrich its key debates.

Edited Collection – Popular Culture and World Politics

E-International Relations • Apr 22 2015 • Features

This edited collection offers a holistic approach to an exciting field of research and contributes to the establishment of Pop Culture and World Politics as a sub-discipline of International Relations.

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