Björk - Nicola Dibben
Nationalism
Björk - Nicola Dibben
Nicola Dibben [+]
University of Sheffield
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Nicola Dibben is Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. She has published widely on textual analysis of popular music, gender and identity, critical and cultural theory, emotional responses to music, and music perception.
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Björk’s artistic output is shaped in relation to the global imagination of Iceland and her enculturation within nationalist sentiment. This chapter's analysis shows that understanding the cultural context of her work’s production and reception helps explain her work’s thematic content and style.