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This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary society. In its innovative combination of approaches drawing from (ethno)musicology, sociology, and political science, as well as media and cultural studies, this book develops a culture-oriented approach to populism. Based on shared research questions, an original theoretical framework and a combination of innovative methodologies that pay attention to the specific socio-historical contexts, taking into account musical material as well as processes of reception, the five chapters in this volume offer detailed analyses of the nexus of popular music and populism in Hungary, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Germany. All of these countries have seen a marked increase in populist parties and discourses over the last years, as well as significant interactions between populism and popular music. This book will be essential reading for those investigating popular music as a crucial aspect in the study of populism as a cultural phenomenon in Europe.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Während sich einzelne Stimmen in der Musikpädagogik bereits seit einiger Zeit mit Fragen nach Politik und dem Politischen in der Musik auseinandersetzen, lässt sich inzwischen auch in der Politischen Bildung ein verstärktes Interesse an Musik und Sound beobachten. Bislang mangelt es allerdings an einem nachhaltigen Dialog zwischen den beiden Disziplinen. Vor diesem Hintergrund bündelt dieser Band Überlegungen zu der Frage, inwiefern sich Ansätze der Musikpädagogik, Sound Studies und der Politischen Bildung in Bezug auf den an Bedeutung gewinnenden Nexus zwischen Musik, Sound und Politik gegenseitig bereichern können.

Addressing a range of music examples and texts, the fifteen essays in this volume explore the interaction between both conceptions of time and space and the intermedial relationship between words and music. This intermedial experimentation may serve to adopt the spatio-temporal attributes of the other medium or to comment on a form's own mediality. It has much to say about processes of literary and musical composition and reception, the role of tradition and intertextuality, and the medial constellation in which these works situate themselves. The articles here collected testify to the success of the first conference of the Word and Music Association Forum, founded in 2009 to offer graduate students and post-docs a forum for presenting and discussing work in word and music studies.