'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

FOREWORD
Lyombe Eko
Texas Tech University, USA

PREFACE
Uche Onyebadi
Texas Christian University, USA

CHAPTER 1
Stirring up “Good Trouble:” Black songs of protest and activism in 21st century U.S.
Dorothy M. Bland
Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas, USA
Marquita S. Smith
School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi, USA

CHAPTER 2
Speaking for the “Other:” Reinforcing the Jezebel stereotype in Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Ann White-Taylor
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA

CHAPTER 3
Human rights and redemptive-corrective justice in Bob Marley’s music
Kevin Barker
Kingston University, UK

CHAPTER 4
Framing contesting Nationalisms, Resistance, and Triumph in Ethiopian popular music
Dagim A. Mekonnen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Zenebe Beyene
University of Mississippi, USA

CHAPTER 5
Interpreting Feminism through sounds of resilience in the U.S.: An analytical approach to music from the 19th to the 21st centuries
Ngozi Akinro
Texas Wesleyan University, USA
Jenny J. Dean
Texas Wesleyan University, USA

CHAPTER 6
Broadcasting populism: An examination of Venezuelan Community TV and participatory democracy
Elena M. De Costa
Carroll University, USA

CHAPTER 7
Music and violence: The complexity and complicity of Pashto “Songs of Terror”
Muhammad Farooq
Kent State University, USA
Syed Irfan Ashraf
University of Peshawar, Pakistan

CHAPTER 8
Political messaging in the Anatolian-Pop: How has this music genre transformed Turkey’s socio-political landscape?
Yavuz Yildirim
Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Turkey
Mehmet Atilla Guler
Adnan Menderes University, Turkey

CHAPTER 9
Praise songs amidst political chaos: Assessing the impact of “Hope Your Justice Will Arrive” on Hong Kong’s 2019 Social Movement
Wendy Wing Lam Chan
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, China

CHAPTER 10
From political stump to messaging through music: A study of Madzore’s political songs in Zimbabwe
Faith Bahela
National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe

CHAPTER 11
Political songs, advertising, and development messaging: An assessment of music in promoting socio-economic growth in Tiv society (Nigeria)
Terna Paise Agba
Federal University of Kashere, Gombe, Nigeria

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Uche Onyebadi is a Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department in the Bob Schieffer College of Communication, Texas Christian University. He also served as the Director of the School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (2014-2016). He holds a doctoral degree in journalism, with specialization in political communication, from the University of Missouri, Columbia-Missouri, USA., and his research interests focus on political communication, media and politics, mass communication theory, media ethics, and international communication. His articles have appeared in communication journals such as the Journal of Mass Media Ethics; the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; International Communication Gazette; Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism; Media, War & Conflict; International Communication Research Journal; International Journal of Communication; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication; the Journal of Social Media in Society; and Humanities. Dr. Onyebadi is the Editor of 'Music as a Platform for Political Communication' (2017), 'Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena' (2019) and 'Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas' (2020).

His professional experience includes working as a journalist in Nigeria, in sports management and sport commentary on television in Kenya, as a Fulbright Specialist at BRAC University, Dhaka - Bangladesh (2012), and a Visiting Professor, International Summer School, the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing – China (2017). Dr. Onyebadi is a 2018-2019 Fellow of the Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism and Mass Communication (USA), and the current editor of the International Communication Research Journal, a publication of the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), USA.