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Popular Music and the Myths of Madness (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Popular Music and the Myths of Madness offers a comprehensive critical study of madness mythology in popular music through detailed musicological analysis – incorporating discourse analysis and social semiotics – and investigation of socio-historical context. The book’s establishment of coherent links between anti-psychiatry and popular music is the product of eight years research involving the examination of a considerable body of music (songs/albums encompassing a fifty year period), anti-psychiatry theory, film and literature. The insights presented are necessarily complex due to the multifaceted nature of the anti-psychiatry movement and the diverse characteristics of the associated musical representations.