Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 2 - (Politics) by Uche Onyebadi (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.

Review Quotes

Professor Uche Onyebadi's "Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe" is an encyclopedia of comprehensively researched, expertly written, and well-evidenced chapters on the contribution of music and entertainment to political activism, discourse, and research globally. It is a collection of works that makes two significant contributions to the political communication literature. First, it highlights the importance of focusing questions on modalities of political expression erstwhile relegated to the margins of historical political communication inquiry. Second, it reifies the works of authors who interrogate areas of the globe often considered the periphery of political spaces and, therefore, unworthy of producing knowledge that enriches mainstream research.

[...] the sheer breath of its coverage suggests this book is very clearly the most far- reaching discourse on this important topic to date. Thus, it is an invaluable source of reference for students, analysts, researchers, teachers of political messaging across a wide variety of social science disciplines, including but not limited to communication, political science, and sociology.

Dr. Osabuohien Amienyi

Emeritus Professor and former Chair, Department of Radio-TV

Arkansas State University