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Bloomsbury Popular Music
Bloomsbury Popular Music is a unique source of scholarship and serious in-depth analysis of popular music in a global context. This invaluable digital provides coverage of global popular music from the early 20th century to the present day. It brings together leading scholarship and interactive tools to hit the right note for research and learning across arts, humanities and social science disciplines.
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Theme in Focus: Musical Countercultures
Musical countercultures have sprung up across the world throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, prevailing as an expression of societal subcultures and anti-establishment movements, and as a sonic rebellion against the dominant musical genres which embody the status quo in their particular moment.
Discover countercultures throughout the modern era as explored by a range of international authors on Bloomsbury Popular Music:
- 1960s counterculture
In this chapter on the politics of novelty in the 1960s, Peter Dale explores the legacy of the era's political activism and the true countercultural contribution of its rock music.
- Woodstock
This iconic music and arts festival held in August 1969 has come to symbolize the ultimate expression of 60s countercukture, with its legendary performances and socio-political, activist ambitions.
- Canción de protesta and nueva canción latinoamericana
In South America, the cancion de protesta or 'protest song', denotes a song with a political and ideological message or with a marked social criticism, usually expressed through its lyrics.
- Punk
Punk as a cultural genre first emerged back in 1976 and 1977, and as author Kevin C. Dunn outlines, over the years it has become a global force that constructs oppositional identities, empower local communities, and challenges corporate-led processes of globalization.
- Protestivals in the 21st century
Discover George McKay exploration of "Protestivals' and their role as a creative response to the traditional political rituals.
- Country in focus Vietnam
The music of Vietnam is influenced by both Chinese and South Asian elements, Prior to colonization, popular music entertaiments included musical theatre with origins in Chinese opera, folk theatre and chamber music, as well regional folk song styles.
- Artist in focus: The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground are seen by many as one of the most influential rock groups of all time, despite a lack of commercial success during their years as a band in the mid-late 1960s. Their avant-garde style of rock ' rejected the creative status quo of the time', and sought to 'mould the perverse, the brutal and the beautiful into art'.Watch Video
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