Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina
Future nostalgia in the twenty-first century: Hauntology, hermeneutics, and historicity in contemporary popular music
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis offers a critical analysis and discussion of the philosophical and popular culture concept of hauntology and its application to popular music and theory of history, arguing that hauntology is limited in ways that make it unequipped for understanding popular music’s historicity as the form develops into the 2020s. Drawing on UK artist Dua Lipa’s 2020 album Future Nostalgia as a case study, the argument suggests that recent developments in music production and consumption challenge the hauntological understanding of pop’s historicity. It concludes that instead of looking at the historical in pop through the lens of hauntology, popular music’s relationship to historicity can be better understood through the framework of philosophical hermeneutics.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Jedlic, Ringo Yossarian
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Marsh, Charity
- Piercey, Robert
- Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Ramsay, Christine
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:uregina.scholaris.ca:10294/16513