From Ireland to the States

The re-contextualisation of U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” in different political contexts

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ID6084802
AuthorsLaura Filardo Llamas (0000-0002-2644-975X)
Year2019
Volume18
Issue4
Pages509-525
Publication date2019-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.18061.fil
OpenAlexW2956019128
LanguageEN
References cited21

In this article I start from an understanding of songs as socio-cultural discourses which may also perform a political function. This political function can be reflected in the promotion of particular world-views about given socio-political events and/or in the attempt by the singer to make the audience perform given political actions. To prove this, I will look at the re-contextualisation process undergone by a well-known song by U2: “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” (1983). This song was originally written to respond to the violence of the Northern Irish conflict, but it has been later used to react to other socio-political events. By relying on a cognitive approach to the study of songs, this paper tries to answer two questions: (i) how can we explain the re-contextualisation process undergone by the song and why is it possible? and (ii) how is politics embedded in musical performances

Aesthetics · Art · Cognition · Function (biology · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Musical · Political process · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Sociology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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