I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music

by Jeffrey T Nealon and Jeffrey T. Nealon

Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop's music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central organizing use for the values of twentieth-century popular music: being authentic, being your own person, and being free. In short, not being like everybody...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149620865X
• ISBN13: 9781496208651
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"