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Author: Elizabeth Turner (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367423261
ISBN 10: 036742326
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 30 September 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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The book presents an argument clearly demonstrating how music has seriously impacted New Zealand on a political and social level. Dr Turner broadens the use of Bakhtin's theory of 'Dialogism', originally created for literary analysis, to effectively investigate the historical and cultural significance of the music group Herbs' first album What's Be Happen? The Herbs are described as the vanguard of Pacific Reggae by AudioCulture - the online encyclopedia of New Zealand popular music. Dr Turner's analysis of their first album, which was highly political, draws attention to the impact the album has had on New Zealand at that time and since. It also explores the influence the band and this album has had in forming a music genre that has become internationally recognised. ---Keith McEwing, Secretary, Music Advisory Committee, The Lilburn Trust Elizabeth Turner skilfully blends an informative study of reggae in Aotearoa New Zealand with a detailed conceptual analysis drawing on the ideas of cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Focusing on the band, the Herbs, the book chronicles and interprets a significant era in New Zealand popular music history through an engaging critical lens. ---Professor Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand Turner's scintillating reading of Aotearoa New Zealand band Herbs' 1981 reggae album What's Be Happen as staging a complex web of dialogic relations to challenge colonialism's legacy of racism, social exclusion, land loss and cultural dislocation - in Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere - highlights the continuing relevance of Bakhtin's work for thinking practices of resistance by marginalized communities and for affirming the transformative power of popular culture. Professor Esther Peeren, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
The book presents an argument clearly demonstrating how music has seriously impacted New Zealand on a political and social level. Dr Turner broadens the use of Bakhtin's theory of 'Dialogism', originally created for literary analysis, to effectively investigate the historical and cultural significance of the music group Herbs' first album What's Be Happen? The Herbs are described as the vanguard of Pacific Reggae by AudioCulture - the online encyclopedia of New Zealand popular music. Dr Turner's analysis of their first album, which was highly political, draws attention to the impact the album has had on New Zealand at that time and since. It also explores the influence the band and this album has had in forming a music genre that has become internationally recognised. Keith McEwing, Secretary, Music Advisory Committee, The Lilburn Trust
Author Information
Elizabeth Turner is an independent researcher and academic affiliated to Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
