The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach

Works Cited

• Adorno, Theodor W. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. Routledge, 1991.
   Google Scholar
• Allen, Aaron S. “Ecomusicology: Ecocriticism and Musicology.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 64, no. 2, 2011, pp. 391–94. doi:10.1525/jams.2011.64.2.391.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Allen, Aaron S. “Sustainability and Sound: Ecomusicology Inside and Outside the Academy.” Music & Politics, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014.doi:10.3998/mp.9460447.0008.205
   Google Scholar
• Attali, Jacques. Noise. Translated by Brian Massumi, U of Minnesota P, 1985.
   Google Scholar
• Attridge, Derek. The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers. Oxford UP, 2019.
   Google Scholar
• Austin, John L. How to Do Things with Words. Harvard UP, 1975.
   Google Scholar
• BaileyShea, Matt. Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song. Yale UP, 2021.
   Google Scholar
• Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. 1929. Translated by Caryl Emerson, U of Minnesota P, 1984.
   Google Scholar
• Barthes, Roland. “The Grain of the Voice.” 1972. Music Image Text. Fontana Press, 1977.
   Google Scholar
• Bennett, Tony, et al., editors. Rock and Popular Music. Routledge, 1993.
   Google Scholar
• Cloonan, Martin, and Reebee Garofalo, editors. Policing Pop. Temple UP, 2003.
   Google Scholar
• Culler, Jonathan. “Lyric Words, Not Worlds.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 32–39. doi:10.1515/jlt-2017-0004.
   Google Scholar
• Culler, Jonathan. Theory of the Lyric. Harvard UP, 2015.
   Google Scholar
• Diesen, Even Igland, Bjarne Markussen, and Kjell Andreas Oddekalv, editors. Flytsoner, Scandinavian Academic Press, 2022.
   Google Scholar
• Dyer, Richard. “Entertainment and Utopia.” Movies and Methods: Volume II, edited by Bill Nichols, U of California P, 1985, pp. 220–32.
   Google Scholar
• Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
   Google Scholar
• Eckstein, Lars. Reading Song Lyrics. Rodopi, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Eckstein, Lars. “Torpedoing the Authorship of Popular Music: A Reading of Gorillaz’ ‘Feel Good Inc’.” Popular Music, vol. 28, no. 2, 2009, pp. 239–55. doi:10.1017/S0261143009001809.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ericson, Marcus, et al. “A Growing Plastic Smog, Now Estimated to Be Over 170 Trillion Plastic Particles Afloat in the World’s Oceans – Urgent Solutions Required.” PLoS One, vol. 18, no. 3, 2023, pp.e0281596. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281596.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fornäs, Johan. “The Words of Music.” Popular Music and Society, vol. 26, no. 1, 2003, pp. 37–51. doi:10.1080/0300776032000076388.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frith, Simon. Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music. Oxford UP, 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Frith, Simon. “Why Do Songs Have Words?” Contemporary Music Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 1989, pp. 77–96. doi:10.1080/07494468900640551.
   Google Scholar
• Garratt, James. Music and Politics: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2019.
   Google Scholar
• Gorillaz. Demon Days. Parlophone, 2005.
   Google Scholar
• Gorillaz. “Gorillaz Plastic Beach (Video Accompaniment).” 2010. Internet Archive, archive.org, uploaded 31 May 2022, archive.org/details/gorillaz-plastic-beach-video-accompaniment. Accessed 9 Nov. 2023.
   Google Scholar
• Gorillaz. “The Making of Plastic Beach – Gorillaz.” 2010. Internet Archive, archive.org, uploaded 2 July 2021, archive.org/details/the-making-of-plastic-beach-gorillaz, Accessed 9 Nov. 2023.
   Google Scholar
• Gorillaz. Plastic Beach. Parlophone, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• “Gorillaz, ‘Plastic Beach’ – Murdoc’s Track-By-Track Guide.” New Musical Express, 22 Feb. 2010, https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/gorillaz-plastic-beach-murdocs-track-by-track-guide-781091. Accessed 15 Mar. 2023.
   Google Scholar
• Griffiths, Dai. “From Lyric to Anti-Lyric: Analyzing the Words in Pop Song.” Analyzing Popular Music, edited by Allan F. Moore, Cambridge UP, 2003, pp. 39–59.
   Google Scholar
• Griffiths, Dai. “Function and Construction of Rock Lyrics.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, edited by Allan F. Moore and Paul Carr, Bloomsbury Academic, 2000, pp. 165–78.
   Google Scholar
• Grossberg, Lawrence. “The Framing of Rock: Rock and the New Conservatism.” Rock and Popular Music, edited by Tony Bennett, et al., Routledge, 1993.
   Google Scholar
• Grossberg, Lawrence. “The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in American Culture.” Social Text, no. 8, Winter 1983-1984, pp. 104–26. doi:10.2307/466325
   Google Scholar
• Guy, Nancy. “Flowing Down Taiwan’s Tamsui River: Towards an Ecomusicology of the Environmental Imagination.” Ethnomusicology, vol. 52, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2009, pp. 218–48. doi:10.2307/25653067.
   Google Scholar
• Hillebrandt, Claudia, et al. “Theories of Lyric.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1–11. doi:10.1515/jlt-2017-0001.
   Google Scholar
• Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Parody. U of Illinois P, 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Ingram, David. The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. Rodopi, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Jambeck, Jenna R., et al. “Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean.” Science, vol. 347, no. 6223, 2015, pp. 768–71. doi:10.1126/science.1260352.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karlsen, Ole, editor. Nordisk samtidspoesi. Særlig forholdet mellom musikk og lyrikk. Oplandske Bokforlag, 2013.
   Google Scholar
• Karlsen, Ole, and Bjarne Markussen, editors. Sanglyrikk. Teori – Metode – Sjangrer. Scandinavian Academic Press, 2023.
   Google Scholar
• Kramer, Lawrence. Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History. U of California P, 2002.
   Google Scholar
• Lady Emily. “The Album That Almost Killed Gorillaz.” YouTube, uploaded by Lady Emily, 16 Mar. 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBnh3eAQUg.
   Google Scholar
• Markussen, Bjarne, editor. Lydspor. Når musikk møter tekst og bilde. Portal, 2015.
   Google Scholar
• Mattern, Mark. Acting in Concert: Music, Community and Political Action. Rutgers UP, 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Middleton, Richard. “Pop, Rock and Interpretation.” The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock, edited by Simon Frith, Will Straw, and John Street, Cambridge UP, 2001, pp. 213–25.
   Google Scholar
• Middleton, Richard. Studying Popular Music. Open U, 1990.
   Google Scholar
• Moore, Allan F. Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song. Routledge, 2012.
   Google Scholar
• Negus, Keith. Music Genres and Corporate Cultures. Routledge, 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Negus, Keith. Popular Music in Theory. Wesleyan UP, 1996.
   Google Scholar
• Nickleson, Patrick. “A Lesson in Low Music.” Rancière and Music, edited by João Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson, and Chris Stover, Edinburgh UP, 2021, pp. 71–93.
   Google Scholar
• Pattison, Pat. “Similarities and Differences Between Song Lyrics and Poetry.” The Poetics of American Song Lyrics, edited by Charlotte Pence, UP of Mississippi, 2012, pp. 122–33.
   Google Scholar
• Pattison, Robert. The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism. Oxford UP, 1987.
   Google Scholar
• Peddie, Ian, editor. The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest. Ashgate, 2006.
   Google Scholar
• Pedelty, Mark. Ecomusicology. Rock, Folk, and the Environment. Temple UP, 2012.
   Google Scholar
• Pedelty, Mark. A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism. Kindle ed., Indiana UP, 2016.
   Google Scholar
• Pedelty, Mark, and Kristine Weglarz, editors. Political Rock. Ashgate, 2013.
   Google Scholar
• Pence, Charlotte, editor. The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. UP of Mississippi, 2012.
   Google Scholar
• Pratt, Ray. Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations in the Political Uses of Popular Music. Praeger, 1990.
   Google Scholar
• Rabaté, Dominique. “A World of Gestures.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 89–96. doi:10.1515/jlt-2017-0010.
   Google Scholar
• Rancière, Jacques. Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics. Editor and translated by Steven Corcoran, Continuum, 2004.
   Google Scholar
• Rancière, Jacques. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Translated by Gabriel Rockhill, Continuum, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Richardson, John. “‘The Digital Won’t Let Me Go’: Constructions of the Virtual and the Real in Gorillaz’ ‘Clint Eastwood’.” Journal of Popular Music Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1–29. doi:10.1111/j.1524-2226.2005.00031.x.
   Google Scholar
• Samutina, Natalia. “Plastic Beach Utopia: Gorillaz’ Multimedia Concept Project in the Context of Contemporary Popular Music Culture.” Higher School of Economics Research Paper No WP BRP 71/HUM/2014, 2014, 22 Oct. 2014, ssrn.com/abstract=2512814.
   Google Scholar
• Shank, Barry. The Political Force of Musical Beauty. Duke UP, 2014.
   Google Scholar
• “Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss.” The Natural World, Series 15, written and produced by John Sparks, presented by David Attenborough, BBC, 1996.
   Google Scholar
• Stockfelt, Ola. “Adequate Modes of Listening.” Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. 1997. Edited by Simon Frith, Routledge, 2004, pp. 375–91.
   Google Scholar
• Street, John. Music & Politics. Polity Press, 2012.
   Google Scholar
• Street, John. “Rock, Pop and Politics.” The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock, edited by Simon Frith, Will Straw, and John Street, Cambridge UP, 2001, pp. 213–25.
   Google Scholar
• van Buskirk, Eliot. “Gorillaz Talk Plastic Beach, Subtle Environmentalism and ‘Sunshine in a Bag’.” Wired.com, 29 Apr. 2010. www.wired.com/2010/04/gorillaz/.
   Google Scholar
• Weinstein, Deena. “Rock Protest Songs: So Many and So Few.” The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest, edited by Ashgate Ian Peddie, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 3–16.
   Google Scholar
• Wodak, Josh. “Shifting Baselines: Conveying Climate Change in Popular Music.” Environmental Communication, vol. 12, no. 1, 2018, pp. 58–70. doi:10.1080/17524032.2017.1371051.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar