Date of Award
2006
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Program
Media Studies
Supervisor
Dr. Keir Keightley
Second Advisor
Dr. Jonathan Burston
Abstract
This is a discourse analysis of the free, Canadian, alternative music monthly Exclaim! magazine. Since Exclaim! is the only nationally-distributed alternative music monthly in Canada, its discourses are a solid entry point into the kinds of ideological values that circulate within the Canadian indie music community. This study of Exclaim! also examines the historical (postmodern, post-alternative rock, grunge) and industrial context of the magazine’s discourses. This analysis suggests that although Exclaim!'s discourses and appraisals - as well as the (Canadian) popular music subculture that it documents - could be considered to be an example of the postmodern collapse of the boundaries between high culture and low culture, it can be more accurately described as part of a historically conscious, modernist, and avant-gardist realm that exists firmly within popular music culture.
Recommended Citation
Arbour, Joseph M., "‘BRING US BACK TO THE FUTURE, NOT FORWARD TO THE PAST’: THE MODERNIST SENSIBILITIES AND POSTMODERN ANXIETIES OF EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE" (2006). Digitized Theses. 4922.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4922