Blog Prompts for Nuclear Futures Class, Due April 30 (Group B)

1. Discuss Noriko Manabe’s use of the theories and concepts by Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey in her exposition of the role space and power play in the production and experience of music (“Introduction” (CH 1) in The Revolution Will Not be Televised). You may also include Manabe’s discussion at the beginning of Chapter 4 on the importance of cyberspace for protest music.

2. After watching either “Let’s Join TEPCO” or “You Can’t See it, and You Can’t Smell It Either” several times, offer a sustained reading of how the lyrics and visuals of your chosen music video shapes a post-Fukushima anti-nuclear critique. Your answer will clearly link implications and references to the words and images.

3. In dialogue with this week’s readings and at least one assigned song or music video, comment on the specific role of music in the nuclear abolition movement (in the 1980s and/or at present). In your answer, you might choose another song/video (e.g. one mentioned by Manabe or Klimke/Stapane)  as a point of comparison, elucidating the generic, lyrical, visual, historical, and/or content similarities and differences.