About
My name is Ian Keats. I am currently researching a PhD on Popular Music and the Marketplace (informally “popaganda”) provisionally entitled The devil’s tunes: The rise of popular music in advertising. However, music and advertising, being as they are, media which impinge on the lives of everyone, I decided to begin this blog in order to explore some of my research ideas and findings in a more simple manner and to get some feedback on my theories and responses from my readers concerning their own experiences of the effects of popular music in advertising. This blog is therefore explorative rather than heavily academic.
Over the past couple of years I have been examining the mechanisms through which popular music is able to subvert the attention of a mass audience from systems of power that are undermining their true moral intentions.
Particularly in advertising (whether commercial i.e. for a product or service that is of material benefit or ideological i.e. government information broadcasts or party political announcements.
ian dot keats at popaganda dot org
