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Muehsam, John P.

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"Some Words when Spoken Can't Be Taken Back": Self and Mental Health in Grunge Music.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Some Words when Spoken Can't Be Taken Back": Self and Mental Health in Grunge Music./
Author:	Muehsam, John P.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	389 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-12B.
Subject:	Mental health. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27996109
ISBN:	9798607345600

"Some Words when Spoken Can't Be Taken Back": Self and Mental Health in Grunge Music.
Muehsam, John P.

"Some Words when Spoken Can't Be Taken Back": Self and Mental Health in Grunge Music. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 389 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Widener University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation uses critical discourse analysis to examine how self and mental health are conceptualized in the lyrics of Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. "Grunge" music is conceptualized as a mode of popular discourse which can be analyzed to understand how people qualitatively articulate their experiences of self in late modern societies. The literature review considers a body of psychological and sociological literature, finding that modern people psychologically internalize the lack of overall cohesion in modern social institutions. As a kind of parallel process, modern people psychologically mirror modern social systems in that they tend to be radically individualistic and interiorly reflexive. The overall outcome is that people often experience themselves as empty, lacking, traumatized, and without a consistent life narrative connecting their past, present, and future selves. I attempt to develop a conceptual link between the social issue of mental health crisis and this sociological analysis, suggesting that mental health crisis may be a manifestation of a crisis of identity in contemporary United States. The literature review further develops a framework for the analysis on the foundations of social constructionism, critical realism, and aesthetics. Lyrics from all songs published on major studio album releases by the four bands were analyzed for themes related to self and mental health. Song lyrics were gathered from internet sites for a sample of 367 songs from 33 albums. These were reviewed to identify songs with content related to the experience of self and mental health. From this preliminary review, 146 songs were identified for thematic analysis. The lyrics of these 146 songs were then analyzed using MAXQDA to code for themes. Six themes emerged from the analysis: reflexivity, challenging existential issues, experience of self, experience of relationships, and experience of the world. Finally, three songs were analyzed in more detail to understand how meaning and reflexivity are communicated. Results are presented in light of the theories developed in the literature review. These results are discussed in light of the social conditions they may reflect. Limitations of the study and implications for social work theory and practice are discussed.

ISBN: 9798607345600Subjects--Topical Terms:

534751
Mental health.
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Critical Discourse Analysis

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