IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.5en
Melanie Ptatscheck
{"title":"Never Waste a Crisis!? – The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Mental Health of EDM DJs","authors":"Melanie Ptatscheck","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.5en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.5en","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 crisis places an unprecedented strain on an industry already characterised by poor mental health due to challenging working conditions, including the difficulty of sustaining a living, anti-social working hours, exhaustion, and the inability to plan time and future. This article discusses the current mental health conditions of musicians in dealing with the exceptional situation through a retrospective perspective on those affected. Based on a qualitative interview study conducted with EDM DJs during the first lockdown in Germany, I use three exemplary cases to give insights into their individual experienced living environments and working conditions. I show how the COVID-19 crisis is related to their previous life situation, mental state, and personal self-perceptions as DJs. I further argue that the current crisis may not only have a negative impact on the (already poor) mental health of creative professionals but may also bring health-promoting potential.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85419618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.11en
M. M. Hall
{"title":"Hip Hop’s Musical Horizon of Hope in Dark Times","authors":"M. M. Hall","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.11en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.11en","url":null,"abstract":"Prompted by the shocking death of George Floyd (who once freestyled with Houston’s legendary Screwed Up Click), this short reflection explores how hip hop’s revolutionary soundscapes and consciousness might serve as a utopian beacon in our dark times. It argues that this artistic movement not only creates new musical and political spaces for cultural creativity, critique, and resistance, but also continues to serve—through its Black prophetic fire—as a transformative horizon of hope that promotes both unrelenting compassion and resistance.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75270323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.10en
Jason Huxtable
{"title":"Pragmatic White Allyship for Higher Education Popular Music Academics","authors":"Jason Huxtable","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.10en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.10en","url":null,"abstract":"The world watched the killing of George Floyd from a position of COVID induced captivation. The succeeding global protests and Black Lives Matter movement justly prompted us all to consider our own complicity with the modes of systemic racism which have normalized anti-Black thought and action. The Wonkhe@Home: Black Lives Matter event (July 2020) sought to share pragmatic advice for ‘taking action to tackle racism across HE’, aware of the responsibility for the Higher Education sector to acknowledge its own role in consecrating racist forms of knowledge. This ‘statement’ translates session outcomes for Popular Music Academics (PMA), provoking the ethical imperative to reflect upon individual situational praxis towards White Allyship action. Through consideration of PMA’s typical fields of agency, I make suggestions towards development of anti-racist learning cultures within Popular Music Higher Education.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85267011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.12en
N. Zuberi
{"title":"REVIEW I Popular Music in the Post Digital Age","authors":"N. Zuberi","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.12en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.12en","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the book Popular Music in the Post Digital Age by Ewa Mazierska, Les Gillon & Tony Rigg, Eds.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75890643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.8en
Ioannis Tsioulakis
{"title":"PODCAST | Music Work and Solidarity Politics in the Age of Covid-19: Some Thoughts from Greece","authors":"Ioannis Tsioulakis","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.8en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.8en","url":null,"abstract":"Professional musicians in Athens are a community notoriously lacking in solidarity and collective campaigning. Even during the so-called ‘Greek Crisis’, that exacerbated circumstances of precarity among performing artists, musicians seemed reluctant to resort to collective struggle and unionisation. However, the wake of the pandemic that resulted in the closure of music venues and cancellation of all face-to-face musical activity overnight had an unprecedented effect on the collectivisation of Greek musicians. The Panhellenic Music Union is rising in visibility and agency and a new grassroots movement called ‘Support Art Workers’ has emerged as a point of solidarity for thousands of creative artists including musicians, actors, dancers, visual artists and technicians. In this audio statement, Ioannis Tsioulakis (author of Musicians in Crisis, Routledge 2020) reflects on these new developments and provides some thoughts on why Covid-19 might be a time that cultivates collective campaigns for musicians and other precarious creative workers.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73300830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.9en
M. Lücke
{"title":"Cultural Policy in Germany – Chance for Change?","authors":"M. Lücke","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.9en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.9en","url":null,"abstract":"The Corona pandemic is still ongoing and has changed almost all areas of economic, social and cultural life—perhaps even lastingly, it is not yet possible to say. The music sector, in all its diversity, also suffers from the current restrictions. \u0000In this statement dealing with cultural policy in Germany, I discuss the need to distribute public funding for culture differently. In the last few months, it has become clear that it is above all the non-publicly financed free popular culture scene that suffers most from the restrictive effects (for example, bans on appearances). The publicly funded (music-)cultural sector, on the other hand, can continue to plan the future—without any guarantee as to how it will run. The Corona pandemic should have been a time to bring institutional and independent scenes closer together in order to create something new both artistically and organizationally.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84178638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.2en
Jan Herbst, Michael Ahlers
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Crises at Work: Potentials for Change?","authors":"Jan Herbst, Michael Ahlers","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.2en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2021)v11i1.2en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82175715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2020)v10i2.3en
Luiz Costa Lima Neto
{"title":"The First “Sound of the Aura” of Hermeto Pascoal (1984): Hearing the Spoken Voice as a Sung Melody","authors":"Luiz Costa Lima Neto","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2020)v10i2.3en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2020)v10i2.3en","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the “Som da Aura”, a term created by the Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal to designate musical compositions based on the notion that the spoken voice is a non-conventional melody. I show how the “Sound of the Aura” derived from Hermeto’s intuitive childhood experimentations with the sounds of his environment, later developed into the musical use of unconventional sound patterns, such as human speech, discerned by Hermeto with his accurate hearing. I analyze the antecedents, the context and the music of the first “Sound of the Aura” to be recorded, the piece “Tiruliruli” (1984), originally a narration done by the sports announcer Osmar Santos about a goal by the soccer player, “Doutor” Socrates. The article discusses the dichotomy between the “natural” and the “conventional”, used by the composer in order to structure the “Sound of the Aura”, addressing musical, psychological, sociocultural, economic and spiritual aspects.","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85932768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IASPM JournalPub Date : 2019-10-12DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2019)v9i1.5en
Stian Vestby
{"title":"Keeping it Country while Dancing with the Elite","authors":"Stian Vestby","doi":"10.5429/2079-3871(2019)v9i1.5en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2019)v9i1.5en","url":null,"abstract":"The published work is protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. \u0000 \u0000https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/","PeriodicalId":36498,"journal":{"name":"IASPM Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76426835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}