Lyndon C. S. Way is Associate Professor of media and communications at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey Simon McKerrell is Senior Lecturer & Head of Music at Newcastle University, UK
This volume offers a useful collection of studies ... Individual case studies are skilfully drawn and very thought-provoking. * IASPM@Journal * Music As Multimodal Discourse takes the reader through a fascinating journey in the multimodal dimension of music as discourse, through its material and ideological purport and through its incredible power of integration with other models of discourse. It is a reading that addresses academic boundaries that have no more reason to exist. * CADAAD * A very thought-provoking collection of essays. * Punctum: International Journal of Semiotics * Music as Multimodal Discourse is an essential volume for scholars seeking to understand and analyse the role of music in ways that uncover its critical potential for social change. All too often music is analysed as a “merely” aesthetic, emotive, or abstractly cultural phenomenon. This valuable collection understands music as a primary motivating element in political and historical struggles for power, and as forms of discourse that are often opaque precisely because they are so elemental and ubiquitous. -- Philip Graham, Professor of Music, Queensland University of Technology, Australia