karl smith
Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Music, Graduate Student
- Green Day studies, Music, Music culture, Political Music, Comsumption and listening habbits, Adorno, and 13 moreGreen Day, Inter-textuality, Lyrical Analysis, Genre Theory, Genre studies, Punk Culture, Celebrity Studies, Popular Music, Popular Music Studies, Theodor W. Adorno, Theodor Adorno, Popular Music and Culture, and Intratextualityedit
- Researcher in popular music cultures, consumption and collecting, and music's many relationships with politics.edit
This dissertation analyses American Idiot (Green Day, 2004) in terms of its lyircal narrative, political argument, inter-textuality, genre, and visual forms. It aims to uncover new information in each of these areas and various others.
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This essay explores the active elements of live performance consumption. In doing this it argues against Therdor Adorno's hypothesis regarding passive 'de-concetrated' listeners.
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This paper takes a look at record collecting habbits and the active consumption that accompanies them. In doing this it takes the form of a report and uses a combination or primary and secondary research as well as discussion as... more
This paper takes a look at record collecting habbits and the active consumption that accompanies them. In doing this it takes the form of a report and uses a combination or primary and secondary research as well as discussion as methodology.
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In a modern day western music world, the strength of protest songs (as it always has been) is tested. The social change it is able to produce is disscussed within the essay through the use of secondary research, analysis, and disscussion.... more
In a modern day western music world, the strength of protest songs (as it always has been) is tested. The social change it is able to produce is disscussed within the essay through the use of secondary research, analysis, and disscussion. The essay concludes the process of how protest music creates social change, which from my research is not in the way the majority audiences assume. Infact, far from it.
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This paper examine the purposes and abilities of protest music and events with a strong emphasis on Rock Against Racism. It has been written in accordance with the Cardiff University Music School's MHRA referencing system and aims to be... more
This paper examine the purposes and abilities of protest music and events with a strong emphasis on Rock Against Racism. It has been written in accordance with the Cardiff University Music School's MHRA referencing system and aims to be Masters level.
