The politics of popular music

Contextual documentaries and films that show political themes and their occurrence in different musical genres and sub-genres
The politics of popular music Contextual documentaries and films that show political themes and their occurrence in different musical genres and sub-genres

A playlist that provides a range of contextual documentaries and films for a Popular Music Politics course at the University of Glasgow.

It draws on a number of recurring themes (gender and sexuality, race, censorship, democracy and totalitarianism) and shows them at work and intersecting in different countries and across different genres and sub-genres.

Curator

Dr John Williamson, University of Glasgow

Subject

Keywords

race, gender, politics, music, country, hip-hop, censorship