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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
From Ireland to the States : The re-contextualisation of U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” in different political contexts
:
The re-contextualisation of U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” in different political contexts
Beteiligte:
Filardo-Llamas, Laura
Erschienen:
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019
Beschreibung:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>In this article I start from an understanding of songs as socio-cultural discourses which may
also perform a political function. This political function can be reflected in the promotion of particular
world-views about given socio-political events and/or in the attempt by the singer to make the audience
perform given political actions. To prove this, I will look at the re-contextualisation process undergone by a
well-known song by U2: “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” (1983). This song was originally written to respond to the
violence of the Northern Irish conflict, but it has been later used to react to other socio-political events.
By relying on a cognitive approach to the study of songs, this paper tries to answer two questions: (i) how
can we explain the re-contextualisation process undergone by the song and why is it possible? and (ii) how is
politics embedded in musical performances?</jats:p>