Coastal Environments in Popular Song

<p>This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable.</p><p>Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter’s <em>Bioethics Bridge to the Future</em> (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as ‘central to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relations’. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change.</p><p>Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics, social history, and the history of music. </p> <p><strong>Part 1: Campaigns, protests, and warnings</strong><br><br>1. Confucius and the Ethical Edge: Shake it baby now, twist and shout</p><p>Paul D. Sladky </p><p>2. "Nobody Can Stop the Waves": Constructing the Coast in Dutch Pop Music, </p><p>Coco d'Hont</p><p>3. Frost or Fire? Popular music responses to Climate Change, 1960-1979 </p><p>Chris Mounsey</p><p>Part 2: Sensuality, romance, and hedonism</p><p>4. The sensual coast: eroticism, perception, encounter</p><p>Jonathan Day </p><p>5. Seaside Ports, Coastal Cities and Tropical Islands Songs of Sex Work and Inequality by the Sea</p><p>Natasha Mulvihill</p><p>Part 3: Politics, isolation, and nostalgia</p><p>6. From Endless Summer to Endless Bummer: The Californian ‘beach song’ from 1962–2020</p><p>Glenn Fosbraey</p><p>7. Island Logic: Roots Reggae, Rasta, and Post-Colonial Critique</p><p>Justin Patch</p><p>8. Flotsam and Jetsam: British coastal songs of jettison, discovery, and retrieval (1984-2021)</p><p>Kevan Manwaring</p><p>9. The Sonically Evoked Spaces of Post Rock in an Era of Climate Reality </p><p>Gareth Schott</p>