Resistance, protest and configurations of time, space and place in Herbs’ Pacific reggae songs

This paper begins by exploring the notions of resistance and protest in popular music. Although the terms have been used in Anglophone discussions of popular music for some hundred years, there is a tendency to treat them as synonymous. The paper draws on the work of David Laing (2003), who consider...

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Autor principal:	Elizabeth Turner
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Lenguaje:	EN ES FR IT PT
Publicado:	DINÂMIA’CET – IUL, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies 2021
Materias:	Resistance and protest social commentary Pacific reggae Herbs Bakhtin chronotope Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying NA9000-9428 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology HT101-395 Urbanization. City and country HT361-384
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5cdd836143024a8c90d66107bda464332021-12-02T10:41:03ZResistance, protest and configurations of time, space and place in Herbs’ Pacific reggae songs2182-3030https://doaj.org/article/5cdd836143024a8c90d66107bda464332021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/cidades/4284https://doaj.org/toc/2182-3030This paper begins by exploring the notions of resistance and protest in popular music. Although the terms have been used in Anglophone discussions of popular music for some hundred years, there is a tendency to treat them as synonymous. The paper draws on the work of David Laing (2003), who considers the distinction between protest songs and resistance songs, and also extends Barbara Harlow’s (1987) conceptualisation of resistance poetry to the similarly compressed discourse structures of popular songs. Framed by this exploration and by Mikhail Bakhtin’s theorisation of popular culture as “the privileged bearer of democratic and progressive values” (Hirschkop, 1987, p. 92), the paper presents an interpretive discourse analysis of the construction of social commentary, resistance and protest in the music of the band Herbs in Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Pacific reggae album, released in 1981. This investigation includes consideration of configurations of time/space and place relationships and the implications of these for meaning in three of Herbs’ songs, through the lens of Bakhtin’s (1981b) notion of the chronotope.Elizabeth TurnerDINÂMIA’CET – IUL, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial StudiesarticleResistance and protestsocial commentaryPacific reggaeHerbsBakhtinchronotopeAesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifyingNA9000-9428Urban groups. The city. Urban sociologyHT101-395Urbanization. City and countryHT361-384ENESFRITPTCidades, Comunidades e Território (2021)
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topic	Resistance and protest social commentary Pacific reggae Herbs Bakhtin chronotope Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying NA9000-9428 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology HT101-395 Urbanization. City and country HT361-384
spellingShingle	Resistance and protest social commentary Pacific reggae Herbs Bakhtin chronotope Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying NA9000-9428 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology HT101-395 Urbanization. City and country HT361-384 Elizabeth Turner Resistance, protest and configurations of time, space and place in Herbs’ Pacific reggae songs
description	This paper begins by exploring the notions of resistance and protest in popular music. Although the terms have been used in Anglophone discussions of popular music for some hundred years, there is a tendency to treat them as synonymous. The paper draws on the work of David Laing (2003), who considers the distinction between protest songs and resistance songs, and also extends Barbara Harlow’s (1987) conceptualisation of resistance poetry to the similarly compressed discourse structures of popular songs. Framed by this exploration and by Mikhail Bakhtin’s theorisation of popular culture as “the privileged bearer of democratic and progressive values” (Hirschkop, 1987, p. 92), the paper presents an interpretive discourse analysis of the construction of social commentary, resistance and protest in the music of the band Herbs in Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Pacific reggae album, released in 1981. This investigation includes consideration of configurations of time/space and place relationships and the implications of these for meaning in three of Herbs’ songs, through the lens of Bakhtin’s (1981b) notion of the chronotope.
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Resistance, protest and configurations of time, space and place in Herbs’ Pacific reggae songs

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