Sociale verandering door affect? De politieke impact van de instrumentale muziek van Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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2025-07-04
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This thesis explores the instrumental and political music of post-rock group Godspeed You!
Black Emperor, aiming to discover how this music is used in their political context. The
music consists of long instrumental songs, with only the political context mentioned in
paratextual elements like the song titles or in press releases. For the listener, this makes it
difficult to understand exactly what their political goals are and how they are expressed
through the music. In this research two songs were analysed that dealt with political topics
through instrumental music, one with an ambiguous political goal and one with a more clear
goal. Through affect theory, the music is understood as having the potential capacity to open
up possibilities of social transformation and as having the potential to express how political
goals are lived and felt.
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