Power, Martin J.; Dillane, Aileen; Devereux, Eoin(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2014)
Can popular music or an individual song text inform us about society and make us
question dominant discourses in the political and public sphere? This article will
argue that this is indeed the case, so while the mass ...
Power, Martin J.; Dillane, Aileen; Devereux, Eoin(2017)
This article, through a musical, lyrical, and contextual analysis of the Irish recording artist Damien
Dempsey’s song “Colony,” probes contemporary discourses concerning colonialism and postcolonialism. In
presenting ...
Dillane, Aileen; Power, Martin J.; Devereux, Eoin(Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
This chapter explores how a pop song can become (and remain) a critical site for
counter-hegemonic expression, through the creative manipulation of discursive,
structural, sonic, and somatic elements. ‘The Slum Mums’, ...
Devereux, Eoin; Dillane, Aileen; Power, Martin J.(Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2018)
Pierrot the clown is a recurring figure in David Bowie’s oeuvre. In this article we examine Bowie’s use of Pierrot in his self-directed homemade video for the single release of ‘Love is Lost’ (2013). The article demonstrates ...
