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Editorial Introduction: "Once the Waters Start to Rise..."

2020; International Association for the Study of Popular Music; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5429/2079-3871(2020)v10i2.1en

2079-3871

Mary Fogarty,

American Environmental and Regional History

In many of the articles of this open issue, questions about the future meanings of sound and society prevail.The answers involve not only critiques of presentism but also concerns of a present with no future.In the first article that appears, Kai Arne Hansen asks, "In what ways does pop music made and performed by children contribute to environmental debate?," and finds that young activists have been at the forefront of public discourse about anthropogenic climate change.The theme of childhood experiences is also picked up in an article by Luiz Costa-Lima Neto, which we now republish in a translation into English by Tom Moore.Costa-Lima Neto suggests that composer Hermeto Pascoal's theorization of "Som da Aura" was rooted in his early experiences of hearing the spoken voice as sung melody.Costa-Lima Neto notes that Pascoal relates atonal sounds such as conversations and "pigs, geese, turkeys, chickens, ducks" to the everyday world around him.He also offers an exploration of what it means not only to hear the meaning of sounds differently from others but to also find compositional approaches to bridge ways of listening with others (enjoyably, Neto's journey through various methodologies to explain Pascoal's approach to composition is equally novel in its experimentation.)Moving to genre studies, Benjamin Hillier and Ash Barnes explore the emergence of right-wing ideologies in the music and art of two Australian metal bands.They provide a historical backdrop for bands claiming to be apolitical; bands that suggest that they not be taken seriously whilst also portraying "alt-right," neo-Nazi sentiments.Further, Sergio Mazzanti's article addresses the Russian rock band, DDT, and offers some historical context for Russian music in his thinking through of self-quotation.He suggests in passing that Britney Spears isn't intertextual so I will be looking forward to heated (pub) debates with him over this matter when live conferences start back up.Thank you to Richard Osborne, our Reviews Editor, for a fantastic year securing book reviews for the journal.