Austro-Pop as “counter-hegemonic resistance”?
“Recent political and social developments in Austria have been widely portrayed in simplistically metonymic terms, with controversial figures such as Waldheim and Haider being perceived to epitomise Austrian society as a whole.” In his paper, Christian Karner analyses “the discursive/lyrical content of some of the songs by STS and Austria 3, two of the most successful bands within the genre of Austrian popular music. Approaching these two case studies from the theoretical perspectives of discourse analysis and cognitive anthropology, he tries to show that ‘Austro-Pop’ has – at important junctures in recent Austrian history – served as a tool of ideological resistance and created sites of social critique and cultural introspection.” (…) I have to admit: I am not really sure about this…
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19 January 2012 at 08:50
kadry…
I saw this today……