The screams all sound the same : the music of Of Monsters and Men and the Icelandic imaginary as geographical discourse
Over the last two decades, a substantial body of geographical research has emerged examining the mutually generative relations between music, space, place, landscape, identity and locality. This work has revealed the complex ways in which specific geographical identities and imaginaries can be reinf...
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ftloughboroughun:oai:figshare.com:article/9485168 2023-05-15T16:51:11+02:00 The screams all sound the same : the music of Of Monsters and Men and the Icelandic imaginary as geographical discourse Fiona Tweed Allan Watson 2018-03-14T00:00:00Z https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_screams_all_sound_the_same_the_music_of_Of_Monsters_and_Men_and_the_Icelandic_imaginary_as_geographical_discourse/9485168 unknown 2134/27796 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_screams_all_sound_the_same_the_music_of_Of_Monsters_and_Men_and_the_Icelandic_imaginary_as_geographical_discourse/9485168 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified Geographical imaginary Iceland Landscape Music Text Journal contribution 2018 ftloughboroughun 2022-01-01T19:23:07Z Over the last two decades, a substantial body of geographical research has emerged examining the mutually generative relations between music, space, place, landscape, identity and locality. This work has revealed the complex ways in which specific geographical identities and imaginaries can be reinforced and created through differences in sound, through lyrics, and through the acts and meanings of making music. Yet, these identities and imaginaries can also perform important economic functions, representing geographical discourses that musicians can employ to develop distinctiveness to make themselves marketable, particularly in the context of a heavily-saturated contemporary global music market. In this paper, we examine this with specific relation to the Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men. We provide an account of how references to landscape and folklore in the band’s music, lyrics and imagery represent not only expressions of intimate connections with local landscape, cultural identity and lived experience, but also embody awareness of a pre-existing Icelandic imaginary. The use of folk music instruments, cultural references and motifs, we argue, acts to legitimise the band’s use of this imaginary. Further, we highlight explicit attempts to brand Icelandic music under a single ‘label’ as representative of the way in which this Icelandic imaginary comes to represent a powerful, if potentially homogenising, geographical discourse to mark out Icelandic music in a crowded global music market. Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Iceland Loughborough University: Figshare |
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Over the last two decades, a substantial body of geographical research has emerged examining the mutually generative relations between music, space, place, landscape, identity and locality. This work has revealed the complex ways in which specific geographical identities and imaginaries can be reinforced and created through differences in sound, through lyrics, and through the acts and meanings of making music. Yet, these identities and imaginaries can also perform important economic functions, representing geographical discourses that musicians can employ to develop distinctiveness to make themselves marketable, particularly in the context of a heavily-saturated contemporary global music market. In this paper, we examine this with specific relation to the Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men. We provide an account of how references to landscape and folklore in the band’s music, lyrics and imagery represent not only expressions of intimate connections with local landscape, cultural identity and lived experience, but also embody awareness of a pre-existing Icelandic imaginary. The use of folk music instruments, cultural references and motifs, we argue, acts to legitimise the band’s use of this imaginary. Further, we highlight explicit attempts to brand Icelandic music under a single ‘label’ as representative of the way in which this Icelandic imaginary comes to represent a powerful, if potentially homogenising, geographical discourse to mark out Icelandic music in a crowded global music market. |
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