Overview
- Studies musical insults, including insults delivered in music, music that is heard as an insult to music, and insults directed at musicians
- Uncovers how people use musical insults to negotiate power dynamics around race, class, and gender
- Analyzes how musicians from Frank Zappa to Nickleback, Taylor Swift, to Insane Clown Posse handle insults directed at them and their music
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Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice. There is insult in the music we hear, how we express our musical preferences, as well as our reactions to settings and sites of music and music making. More than that, when music and insult overlap, the effects can both promote social justice or undermine it, foster connection or break it apart. The coming together of music and insult shapes our sense of self and view of other people, underlining and constructing difference, often in terms of race and gender. In the last decade, music’s power dynamics have become an increasingly important concern for music scholars, critics, and fans. Studying musicians such as Frank Zappa, Nickleback, Taylor Swift, and the Insane Clown Posse, and musical phenomena such as musician jokes, the use of music to torture people, and the playing of music in restaurants, this book shows the various and contradictory ways insults are used to negotiate those existing dynamics in and around music.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Back Matter
Reviews
Lily Hirsch is a terrific writer, with prose that is lively and lucid, and her academic credentials are impeccable and her list of scholarly publications is impressive. Hirsch’s approach to analysis ensures that the theme of insult and music is considered from several points of view, and her work is sure to provoke reflection and discussion.-Jacqueline Warwick, Professor of Musicology, Dalhousie University, Canada.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lily E. Hirsch is a musicologist and visiting scholar at California State University, Bakersfield, USA. She is the author of several books, including Weird Al: Seriously (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Insulting Music
Book Subtitle: A Lexicon of Insult in Music
Authors: Lily E. Hirsch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16466-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16465-1Published: 02 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16468-2Published: 03 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16466-8Published: 01 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 213
Topics: Music, Popular Culture