Publication: Special Issue on Popular Music and Populism

Special Issue on Popular Music and Populism

A special issue of Popular Music on “Popular Music and Populism” is now available. More information here. The issue includes articles focusing on Israel, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Chile, and Turkey/the US.

  1. “The people vs. the power bloc? Popular music and populism”
    Mario Dunkel, Melanie Schiller

  2. “The regime of style: cover versions, reality TV, and the aesthetic principles of populism in Israel and beyond” 
    Oded Erez 

  3. “Populist performance(s) in contemporary Greek rap music”
    Kostas Savvopoulos, Yannis Stavrakakis

  4. “The ‘System of National Cooperation’ hit factory: the aesthetic of Hungarian government-commissioned songs between 2010 and 2020”
    Emília Barna, Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják

  5. “Songs of tractors and submission: on the assembled politicity of popular music and far-right populism in Austria” 
    André Doehring, Kai Ginkel

  6. “From ‘we shall prevail’ to ‘weapon of struggle’: Populism, Chile's Unidad Popular government and Nueva Canción” 
    Gonzalo Carrasco, Dan Bendrups, Raúl Sanchez Urribarrí 

  7. “Anti-populist populism: Musical challenges to Trump's America and Erdoğan's Turkey”
    Lyndon C.S. Way

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