Christoph Jacke – ~Vibes – The IASPM D-A-CH Series

20. Oktober 202227. Oktober 2022 von Beate Flath, Christoph Jacke und Manuel Troike

Transformational POP: Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies) – Introduction

Transformations of various kinds have always shaped societies and especially its cultures and research – triggered, for example, by wars, revolutions, shifts in social orders, pandemics, etc. They have led to uncertainty and social upheaval, but also to innovation and change. As pop music cultures, in their entire breadth, can be described as seismographs of social, political, economic, ecological, media, artistic, and technological transformations, in and through them, fields of tensions, disruptions, and lines of conflict become not only visible, audible, and perceptible, but also communicable and thus, negotiable. Volume No. 2 of ~Vibes – The IASPM D-A-CH Series, which is based on the 4th Biennial IASPM D-A-CH conference at Paderborn University/online, takes a closer look at the transformative moments of pop music cultures by theorizing, empiricizing, historicizing, and, finally, politicizing them.

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20. Oktober 202227. Oktober 2022 von Kyle Devine und Christoph Jacke

Sustainability, Solutionism, and the Problem of Music. Kyle Devine interviewed by Christoph Jacke

In this interview, Kyle Devine and Christoph Jacke discuss how the worlds of popular music, and popular music research, are responding to climate issues. They touch on Devine’s recent books, Decomposed (2019) and Audible Infrastructures (2021), as well as the book he is currently finishing: Recomposed: Music Climate Crisis Change. The discussion takes a critical, reflexive perspective in relation to several key issues in popular music’s (and wider culture’s) mainstream climate discourse: sustainability, solutions, crisis, capital, class structure, responsibilization, environmental humanities—even music as such. One of Devine’s central points is that much climate thinking, and many responses to climate issues, actually keep the secrets they pretend to tell.

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20. Oktober 202227. Oktober 2022 von Tanja Godlewsky, Christoph Jacke, Stefanie Roenneke und Thomas Venker

Hoffnung POP: Publizistisch-gestalterische Arbeits- und Lebensmodelle im postdigitalen Zeitalter unter Berücksichtigung der transformierenden Rahmenbedingungen. Drei beobachtend-teilnehmende Fallstudien vor dem Hintergrund einer gemeinsamen Forschungsperspektive.

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem wissenschaftlich peripher behandelten, jedoch komplexen Bereich des Popmusikjournalismus. Es wird gefragt, inwiefern sich umfassendere soziale, wirtschaftliche, mediale, musikalische und (musik-)technologische Transformationen der Gesellschaft besonders in dem Bereich von Popmusikjournalismus, und zwar seiner Produktion, Gestaltung, Distribution und Archivierung, ablesen lassen. Neben einer popkultur-, medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Rahmung vereint der Beitrag drei Fallstudien mit eigenen Schreibweisen. Dieser multiperspektivische Ansatz dient dazu, in die Black Boxes des Popmusikjournalismus und seine zentralen Transformationen zu schauen und die Ebene des Designs integrieren zu können.

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