The Capitalist Imaginaries of Popular Music

by Charles Fairchild

Revelations of neoliberal capitalism's effects on pop music, challenging its longstanding status as defying the status quo.

Traditionally, popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest, resist, and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-standing orthodoxy, arguing that popular music is not so much a form of resistance to authority, but it often perpetuates the very power it is supposed to be raging against:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835950493
• ISBN13: 9781835950494
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Intellect (UK)
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.