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The Political Imagination of


Can Rock & Roll Change the World?
by Shih-Lun CHANG

Goldsmiths
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E-mail: shihlun.chang@gmail.com

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2004

2007
U2

activism

definitive
guide

politics of music

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been there, done that

Joe
Hill Woody Guthrie

Bob Dylan 1966

Joe HillWoody GuthriePete SeegerBob DylanJoan BaezPatti Smith


Bruce Springsteen John LennonThe ClashBilly Bragg
U2

Victor Jara
Charlie Haden The Ballad of
the Fallen (1983) Frederic Rzewski The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
(1975) Joan BaezThe Clash U2

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John Lennon
1969 73

icon

justify

experienced

music as it is

4Street,
4

2005

pleasure
Street, 2006: 55

performing
John Street

Street
network

visible

DIY

opportunity structure
Street, 2006

Joe Hill Woody Guthrie

Depeche Mode 80

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Jeremy Deller The Posters Came from the Walls, or How Basildon
Ended the Cold War, and Other Stories

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John Lennon
Bono event

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214

215

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genre5
moral capital
Street, 2006:60

visible 6
5

formation



recognizable

embedded

self-determination
1964
Jazz Composers Guild

Bob Dylan George Michael

fetishise
authenticity

micro-politics

171
Dave Laing One
Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock 1976 77

Laing, 1985

George Michael 80

Bob and Roberta Smith


George Michael Has Done more 4 Human Rights

The JamThe ClashBob GeldofBono Sting

http://bit.ly/georgepolitics

Craig OHara

The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise

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DIY community

participant

post-punk
90 Riot
Grrrl 8
9
The Clash

171

182

vanguard
representative


60

Siouxsie and the BansheesThe Slits


The Raincoats 6
Andrea Juno
Angry
Women In Rock

Gang of Four Entertainment!


Simon Reynolds Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Modern Jazz

10

60 70

140

Funk 70
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Afrobeat Fela Kuti
80

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131
John Lennon 69
73
Mick Jagger

Lennon

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Max Roach 1960


We Insist! Freedom Now
John Coltrane K
Alabama Miles Davis

free jazz

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Funk George Clinton Parliament-Funkadelic


George Clinton afro-futurism

Sun Ra Afrika Bambaataa

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Primal Therapy 12

68 Beatles

107

Lennon Revolution
1968
108

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Lennon
Imagine
legacy

2000 John Lennon

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Lennon Pete Shotton


John Lennon: In My
Life

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Beatles 60
Ian MacDonald Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties

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60

Museum

14 Imagine

Peace Tower

15Lennon 2002 Liverpool

Lennon Airport

John

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regeneration

John Lennon

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Imagine

brandingarticulation

Lennon

U2 Bono

politician
Street, 2006
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Lennon Lennon Cynthia


Julian Lennon

2010

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Imagine Peace Tower 2007


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Lennon2008
Frieze Art Fair
Imagine Peace Tower

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Above Us Only Sky Imagine

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Lennon Cynthia
Cynthia Lennon

John

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U2

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U2 80
201
Bono
214
pop star as politician

Bono

U2
2006
Bono

Make Poverty History Bono


Make Bono Pay Tax
2010
U2 6 747 130
55 U2
carbon footprint

Bono
One 2008

One
Bono 2005

Edun

Edun

Bono

Bono
Bono
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democracy

accountability

transparency

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Bono
2004

war criminal Tony Blair Gordon


Brown Lennon McCartney
Lennon
Blair Bono
2009 Bono
2010 David Cameron

statesmanBono U2
Larry Mullen Bono Blair George W. Bush
U2

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fandom
citizenshipStreet, 2006: 58

represent

representative democracy

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cause and eect

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representation

participation
intervention

re-present

presentation

participatory art

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Claire Bishop Artificial Hells:


Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship Participation (Documents of
Contemporary Art)ACT
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the personal is political

cultural rights

everything is political

Jean-Luc Godard
political films

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making film politically

Jacques Ranciere The Politics of Aesthetics



distribution of the sensible


Ranciere, 2006

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Godard 1981

Godard To Alter the Image

http://bit.ly/godardchange

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Fisher, 2010 Alain Badiou


militant art

artistic vision
present

represent
Badiou, 2010

artistic
autonomy

critical distance

representation
representative

presentation

art for arts


sake

Badiou, Alain (2010), Does the Notion of Activist Art Still Have a Meaning? A Lecture
presented at the Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York City, October 13, 2010.
Fisher, Mark (2010), Party for Your Right to Fight, New Statesman, 29 March 2010, pp.
40-42.
Laing, Dave (1985), One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock, London: Open
University Press.
Ranciere, Jacques (2006), The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, tr. by Gabriel
Rockhill, London: Continuum.
Street, John (2005)
Rock, Pop and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock


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Street, John (2006), The Pop Star as Politician: From Belafonte to Bono, from Creativity to
Conscience, in: Ian Peddie, ed., The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest,
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, pp.49-64.

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