The Power and Politics of Popular Music: Intermediality and Institutionality

The proposed focus of this special session revolves around intermediality and institutionality as two main axes relevant to a contextual analysis of popular music. We would like to invite papers that examine the representation and/or remediation of popular music in other media. Papers may as well be concerned with the ways in which various media appropriate forms and themes of popular music and/or adapt its specific musical poetics. We are also interested in papers addressing the relevance of the music industry to an analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of popular music.