Björk - Nicola Dibben
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Björk - Nicola Dibben
Nicola Dibben [+]
University of Sheffield
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Nicola Dibben is Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. She has published widely on textual analysis of popular music, gender and identity, critical and cultural theory, emotional responses to music, and music perception.
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This chapter is concerned with understanding the idea of nature that Björk’s artistic output constructs. In other words, nature is understood here as a set of value-laden concepts, and this chapter explores the way in which Björk’s artistic output contributes to these. In particular, the chapter focuses on the way in which her output presents a unification of the human and the natural, and the salience of this idea within the contemporary cultural context of her work’s production and reception.