Give Peace a Chant - Martinelli, Dario
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This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences.
The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked.
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This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences.

The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked.

This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.

Autorenporträt
Prof. Dr. Dario Martinelli (1974), musicologist, semiotician and composer, is Full Professor of History and Theory of Arts at Kaunas University of Technology, and is also affiliated to the University of Helsinki, as Adjunct Professor in Semiotics and Musicology, and to the University of Lapland, as Adjunct Professor in Methodologies of Semiotics and Communication Studies. As of 2025, he has published sixteen monographs and ca. 200 among edited collections, studies and scientific articles. His most recent books include: The Beatles and the Beatlesque – A crossdisciplinary Analysis of Sound, Production and Stylistic Impact (Springer, 2023), The Intertextual Knot – An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (Springer, 2021), What You See Is What You Hear – Creativity and Communication in Audiovisual Texts (Springer, 2020), Give Peace a Chant – Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest (Springer, 2017), plus a number of popular philosophy books and a collection of poems and song lyrics entitled Comporre e ricomporsi (WorteSekundant, 2025). He is also active in popular music as songwriter and recording artist, currently a member of the duo Jays & Ducks. Martinelli has been recipient of several prizes, including, in 2006, a knighthood from the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italian culture.