ABSTRACT
Seeking to extend discussions of 9/11 music beyond the acts typically associated with the September 11th attacks”U2, Toby Keith, The Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen”this collection interrogates the politics of a variety of post-9/11 music scenes. Contributors add an aural dimension to what has been a visual conceptualization of this important moment in US history by articulating the role that lesser-known contemporary musicians have played”or have refused to play”in constructing a politics of protest in direct response to the trauma inflicted that day. Encouraging new conceptualizations of what constitutes 'political music,' The Politics of Post-9/11 Music covers topics as diverse as the rise of Internet music distribution, Christian punk rock, rap music in the Obama era, and nostalgia for 1960s political activism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |44 pages
Electric Dreams: The Medium and the Message
part |50 pages
Hail to the Thief: Post-9/11 Experimental Music
part |54 pages
What's Going On, Again?: Protest and Nostalgia
part |48 pages
Idle American, American Idol: Mainstream Media and Ideology