Dark Side of the Tune

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Dark Side of the Tune is written by Bruce Johnson and published by Ashgate Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754658724 (ISBN 10) and 9780754658726 (ISBN 13).

This book focuses on the 'dark side' of popular music by examining the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence. Cloonan and Johnson address the physiological and cognitive foundations of sounding/hearing and provide a historical survey of examples of the nexus between music and violence, from (pre)Biblical times to the late nineteenth century. The book also concentrates on the emergence of technologies by which music can be electronically augmented, generated, and disseminated. The authors investigate the implications of this nexus both for popular music studies itself, and also in cultural policy and regulation, the ethics of citizenship, and arguments about human rights.