Melanie Schiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Schiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiller |
| SIGNATURE | SCHILLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3708-0895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pop, Populism, and Pandemic
Although Sweden had few COVID-19 restrictions in comparison to its neighbors, the country experienced organized protests against the government’s handling of the pandemic. This article explores how popular music, within the context of the COVID-19 protests of the Freedom Movement in Sweden, contributed to reaching various audiences and forging connections between formerly unconnected publics and movements. By employing the concept of medical popu…
Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe
This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary society. In its innovative combination of approaches drawing from (ethno)musicology, sociology, and political science, as well as media and cultural studies, this book develops a culture-oriented approach to populism. Based on s…
Rocking the establishment’
This article uses the recent rise of populist radical right discourses in society as a cultural and political phenomenon to explore the role of popular music in constructing these discourses, with a focus on the Sweden Democrats (SD) and musician Peter Jezewski. By examining Jezewski’s direct collaborations with the SD and his song ‘My Land’, the article uncovers how popular music culture participates in the construction of populist discourses of…
Giacomo Bottà, Deindustrialisation and Popular Music
Giacomo Bottà, Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-78660-737-9 (hbk)
The people vs. the power bloc? Popular music and populism
On 12 November 2017, the Philippine celebrity musician Pilita Corrales was singing the popular song 'Ikaw' ('You') at a gala event in Manila, attended by some of the world's most powerful politicians at the time, US President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Suddenly, she noticed a male voice singing along with her, its intonation off, its volume increasing. Aware that the event was being recorded, Corrales at first tried to…
Heino, Rammstein and the double-ironic melancholia of Germanness
Mass migration and the so-called refugee crisis have put questions of national identifications high on political and social agendas in Germany and all over Europe, and have ignited anew debates about the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of Germanness. In this context, popular culture texts and practices offer insights into how identities are marked, and they engage in and produce discourses about national belonging. In this article, I will focus o…
Stories
Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priorit…
Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn”
Post-war Germany is often described in terms of a “loss of identity” and “cultural vacuum.” From this void emerged bands with the desire to re-formulate Germanness musically, like Krautrock's most influential band Kraftwerk, who in their enigmatic song “Autobahn” rhetorically reclaim authority for what it means to be German. By sonically, visually and linguistically touching upon issues of collective memory and the confines of national space, tim…
The people vs. the power bloc? Popular music and populism
On 12 November 2017, the Philippine celebrity musician Pilita Corrales was singing the popular song 'Ikaw' ('You') at a gala event in Manila, attended by some of the world's most powerful politicians at the time, US President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Suddenly, she noticed a male voice singing along with her, its intonation off, its volume increasing. Aware that the event was being recorded, Corrales at first tried to…
Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn”
Post-war Germany is often described in terms of a “loss of identity” and “cultural vacuum.” From this void emerged bands with the desire to re-formulate Germanness musically, like Krautrock's most influential band Kraftwerk, who in their enigmatic song “Autobahn” rhetorically reclaim authority for what it means to be German. By sonically, visually and linguistically touching upon issues of collective memory and the confines of national space, tim…
Heino, Rammstein and the double-ironic melancholia of Germanness
Mass migration and the so-called refugee crisis have put questions of national identifications high on political and social agendas in Germany and all over Europe, and have ignited anew debates about the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of Germanness. In this context, popular culture texts and practices offer insights into how identities are marked, and they engage in and produce discourses about national belonging. In this article, I will focus o…
Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn”
Post-war Germany is often described in terms of a “loss of identity” and “cultural vacuum.” From this void emerged bands with the desire to re-formulate Germanness musically, like Krautrock's most influential band Kraftwerk, who in their enigmatic song “Autobahn” rhetorically reclaim authority for what it means to be German. By sonically, visually and linguistically touching upon issues of collective memory and the confines of national space, tim…
Heino, Rammstein and the double-ironic melancholia of Germanness
Mass migration and the so-called refugee crisis have put questions of national identifications high on political and social agendas in Germany and all over Europe, and have ignited anew debates about the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of Germanness. In this context, popular culture texts and practices offer insights into how identities are marked, and they engage in and produce discourses about national belonging. In this article, I will focus o…
Stories
Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priorit…
Giacomo Bottà, Deindustrialisation and Popular Music
Giacomo Bottà, Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-78660-737-9 (hbk)
The people vs. the power bloc? Popular music and populism
On 12 November 2017, the Philippine celebrity musician Pilita Corrales was singing the popular song 'Ikaw' ('You') at a gala event in Manila, attended by some of the world's most powerful politicians at the time, US President Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Suddenly, she noticed a male voice singing along with her, its intonation off, its volume increasing. Aware that the event was being recorded, Corrales at first tried to…
Rocking the establishment’
This article uses the recent rise of populist radical right discourses in society as a cultural and political phenomenon to explore the role of popular music in constructing these discourses, with a focus on the Sweden Democrats (SD) and musician Peter Jezewski. By examining Jezewski’s direct collaborations with the SD and his song ‘My Land’, the article uncovers how popular music culture participates in the construction of populist discourses of…
Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe
This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary society. In its innovative combination of approaches drawing from (ethno)musicology, sociology, and political science, as well as media and cultural studies, this book develops a culture-oriented approach to populism. Based on s…
Pop, Populism, and Pandemic
Although Sweden had few COVID-19 restrictions in comparison to its neighbors, the country experienced organized protests against the government’s handling of the pandemic. This article explores how popular music, within the context of the COVID-19 protests of the Freedom Movement in Sweden, contributed to reaching various audiences and forging connections between formerly unconnected publics and movements. By employing the concept of medical popu…
Art (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Populism (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)