"I Watched the Child Get Introduced to Violence": Melancholy, Grief, and Self-Making in Earl Sweatshirt’s Feet of Clay
Castle, Mason
2023

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This project examines the intersections of neoliberalism and popular music aesthetics. By treating music itself as theory, this paper examines popular music as a discursive space for the production of alternative politics and subjectivities. Through a qualitative content analysis of Earl Sweatshirt’s 2019 album, Feet of Clay, it is revealed how melancholy and grief contribute to self-making in the context of the artist’s relationship to death under neoliberal capitalism.

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Title "I Watched the Child Get Introduced to Violence": Melancholy, Grief, and Self-Making in Earl Sweatshirt’s Feet of Clay
Creator Castle, Mason
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Academic Department Music Department
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Pagination 38 pages
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Subject (Person) Sweatshirt, Earl, 1994-. Feet of Clay
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Language English
Year Degree Granted 2023
Standard Rights Statement Creative Commons: Attribution
Record Appears in Academic Departments > Music Department > Music Department Student Theses > Music Department Student Theses 2022-23
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Record Created 2023-05-23

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