Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1.: Volume 1

'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.

Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOREWORD Lyombe Eko Texas Tech University, USA PREFACE Uche Onyebadi Texas Christian University, USA CHAPTER 1 Z/Sarsuwelas: Music, theater, and the mediation of political dissent in the Philippines Rodelio Cruz Manacsa University of the South (Sewanee), Tennessee, USA Zeny Sarabia-Panol Middle Tennessee State University, USA CHAPTER 2 Bringing Spirituals onto the Classical Music stage in the service of African American Civil Rights Julia Schmidt-Pirro Independent Scholar, Savannah, GA, USA CHAPTER 3 "I Am More Than My Body!": Politicizing the Female Masquerade performance in the West Indian Carnival Cherry-Ann M. Smart Information Smart Consulting, Jamaica, W.I. CHAPTER 4 Military Rhetoric: Making sense of political messaging in Reggae music Kameika S. Murphy Stockton University, USA CHAPTER 5 Revisiting the role of Popular Culture in supporting the anti-Apartheid Movement (1970s-1980s) Archie W. Simpson Centre for Small State Studies, University of Iceland, Iceland CHAPTER 6 Political music in Brazil: An examination of Punk Rock in Brasília, 1979-1985 Silvio César Tamaso D'Onofrio Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Marta Fernanada Tamaso D'Onofrio Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Henrique César Tamaso D'Onofrio Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, Brazil CHAPTER 7 Political Messaging in Indian Cinema: Core or Periphery? N. Usha Rani University of Mysore, India CHAPTER 8 Musicians and Political songs in the struggle for freedom in Zimbabwe Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube University of Johannesburg, South Africa CHAPTER 9 Stylistic vernacular jingles in political messaging: An analysis of Igbo language jingles in Nigeria's General Elections (2019) Cecilia A. Eme Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria Benjamin I. Mmadike Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria CHAPTER 10 Performative sites of resistance: A challenge to oppression through artistic entertainment Rachael Cofield Florida State University, USA Douglas L. Allen Emporia State University, USA CHAPTER 11 Chile's Nueva Canción and the Pinochet Regime: Censoring political messages in music Kelly Grenier University of Kentucky, USA CHAPTER 12 Zimbabwe: Music, performance, and political lyrics as "cure" for post Bhalagwe trauma Mphathisi Ndlovu Stellenbosch University, South Africa Khanyile Joseph Mlotshwa University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

About the Author :
Uche Onyebadi is a Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department in the Bob Schieffer College of Communication, Texas Christian University. He also served as the Director of the School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (2014-2016). He holds a doctoral degree in journalism, with specialization in political communication, from the University of Missouri, Columbia-Missouri, USA., and his research interests focus on political communication, media and politics, mass communication theory, media ethics, and international communication. His articles have appeared in communication journals such as the Journal of Mass Media Ethics; the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; International Communication Gazette; Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism; Media, War & Conflict; International Communication Research Journal; International Journal of Communication; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication; the Journal of Social Media in Society; and Humanities. Dr. Onyebadi is the Editor of 'Music as a Platform for Political Communication' (2017), 'Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena' (2019) and 'Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas' (2020). His professional experience includes working as a journalist in Nigeria, in sports management and sport commentary on television in Kenya, as a Fulbright Specialist at BRAC University, Dhaka - Bangladesh (2012), and a Visiting Professor, International Summer School, the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing - China (2017). Dr. Onyebadi is a 2018-2019 Fellow of the Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism and Mass Communication (USA), and the current editor of the International Communication Research Journal, a publication of the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), USA.

Review :

Professor Uche Onyebadi's "Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe" is an encyclopedia of comprehensively researched, expertly written, and well-evidenced chapters on the contribution of music and entertainment to political activism, discourse, and research globally. It is a collection of works that makes two significant contributions to the political communication literature. First, it highlights the importance of focusing questions on modalities of political expression erstwhile relegated to the margins of historical political communication inquiry. Second, it reifies the works of authors who interrogate areas of the globe often considered the periphery of political spaces and, therefore, unworthy of producing knowledge that enriches mainstream research.

[...] the sheer breath of its coverage suggests this book is very clearly the most far- reaching discourse on this important topic to date. Thus, it is an invaluable source of reference for students, analysts, researchers, teachers of political messaging across a wide variety of social science disciplines, including but not limited to communication, political science, and sociology.

Dr. Osabuohien Amienyi

Emeritus Professor and former Chair, Department of Radio-TV

Arkansas State University