Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Ideology, Control, and Resistance in Turkey Since 2002 (Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies) by Lyndon C. S. Way - 2018

Bloomsbury, 2018. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Using multimodal critical discourse studies, the author examines the political role of popular music in Turkey and its subversive and political evolution. He considers how popular music multimodally articulates meanings of politics and authenticity in Turkey from 2002 to the present, coinciding with considerable political and social upheaval. He discusses the core principles of critical discourse analysis and multimodal critical discourse studies within it, including the concepts of discourse and ideology and their use for theorizing music as a form of communication, how power relations are reproduced through communicative practices, the concept of recontextualization, and how multimodal critical discourse studies extends critical discourse analysis to the analysis of music, then reviews literature on the relationship between political music and political meaning. He further describes Turkish politics since 2002 and the election of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; how political parties use the internet, mainstream media, and popular music to promote politics and dominant discourses; the role of live concerts; music videos as governmental policy criticism; music in social movements; and social media, political debates, and popular music. (2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)