A War of Songs. Popular Music and Recent Russia–Ukraine Relations: Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt & David-Emil Wickström. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2019, 247pp., €34.90 p/b.
(2020)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2020). A War of Songs. Popular Music and Recent Russia–Ukraine Relations: Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt & David-Emil Wickström. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2019, 247pp., €34.90 p/b. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(8), 1426-1427. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1814605
Dr Catherine Baker's Outputs (9)
Music, media and culture one generation after Yugoslavia: do we still need “nostalgia”? (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Music, media and culture one generation after Yugoslavia: do we still need “nostalgia”?. In O. Anastasakis, A. Bennett, D. Madden, & A. Merdzanovic (Eds.), The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economics and Society in the Modern Balkans (59-78). Bloomsbury Publishing
Celebrity leader personas and embodied militarism (2020)
Journal Article
Baker, C., Jackson, S. T., Crilley, R., Manor, I., Oshikoya, M., Joachim, J., Robinson, N., Schneiker, A., Grove, N. S., & Enloe, C. (2021). Celebrity leader personas and embodied militarism. International studies review, 23(3), 1046-1071. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaa035Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays... Read More about Celebrity leader personas and embodied militarism.
Yugoslav popular music and global histories of the Cold War (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Yugoslav popular music and global histories of the Cold War. In D. S. Beard, & L. V. Rasmussen (Eds.), Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music (232-245). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315452333-25Employing a process of so-called circuit listening and considering the routes, networks, and histories necessary for a song to come about, however, reveals “Colinda” as the outcome of circuits of music, migration, and colonialism, owing its existence... Read More about Yugoslav popular music and global histories of the Cold War.
'Couture military' and a queer aesthetic curiosity: music video aesthetics, militarised fashion, and the embodied politics of stardom in Rihanna’s 'Hard' (2020)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (in press). 'Couture military' and a queer aesthetic curiosity: music video aesthetics, militarised fashion, and the embodied politics of stardom in Rihanna’s 'Hard'. Politik, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v23i1.120308Music video is an underappreciated type of audiovisual artefact in studies of the aesthetics of world politics, which typically privilege linear narrative storytelling and struggle to communicate how sonic and embodied practices also constitute world... Read More about 'Couture military' and a queer aesthetic curiosity: music video aesthetics, militarised fashion, and the embodied politics of stardom in Rihanna’s 'Hard'.
Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. In . C. Baker (Ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (1-30). Edinburgh University Press
Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War. In C. Baker (Ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (74-96). Edinburgh University Press
The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia (2020)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2020). The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia. In C. Baker (Ed.), Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (189-212). Edinburgh University Press
Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (2020)
Book
Baker, C. (Ed.). Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446181.001.0001This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of... Read More about Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics.