Ralf von Appen / Mario Dunkel (eds.)

Popular music offers its listeners socio-cultural orientation and positioning. Associated with this are power structures - for example in the relationship between the sexes, generations, ethnic groups or social milieus - which popular music can reproduce, but also break open, so that disorientation or reorientation can arise. The contributions in this volume analyse such processes critically and on several levels: from neosexism in indie rock and feminist counter-strategies, to sexualised images of Africa and Eastern European hard bass scenes, to the design of post-human worlds in video clips. In addition, guiding principles of music education are scrutinised and proposals for methodological reorientation of the academic examination of popular music are formulated.