Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance

by Marek Korczynski

Book Overview

In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, Songs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479975
• ISBN13: 9780801479977
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher