Resumo (PT):
Abstract (EN):
In this special edition on popular music, we seek to explore Simon Frith’s (1978,
The sociology of rock, London, UK: Constable, p. 39) argument that: ‘Music’s presence in youth culture is established but not its purpose’. ‘Songs that sing the crisis’
captures contemporary accounts, which build upon popular music’s legacy, courage
and sheer determination to offer social and cultural critique of oppressive structures
or political injustice as they are being lived by young people today. Young people
have consistently delivered songs that have focused on struggles for social rights, civil
rights, women’s rights and ethnic and sexual minorities rights through creative anger,
emotion and resistance, and we know that music matters because we consciously
feel the song (DeNora, 2000, Music in everyday life, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press). However, in the aftermath of the post-2008 global economic and cultural
crises, young people, in particular, have faced austerity, social hardship and political
changes, which have impacted on their future lives (France, 2016, Understanding youth
in the global economic crisis, Bristol: Policy Press; Kelly & Pike, 2017, Neo-liberalism
and austerity: The moral economies of young people’s health and well-being, London, UK:
Palgrave). This special issue assesses the key contestation where popular music is
a mechanism to not only challenge but to think through ordinary people’s experience and appeals for social justice. The present introduction starts by presenting
the historical and theoretical background of this research field. Then, it introduces
the articles about the songs that sing the crisis in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Finland,
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific