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1 online resource |
| Series |
Provocations |
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Provocations (Lincoln, Neb.)
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| Contents |
Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Provocations; Introduction; 1. Biopower Blues; 2. Steal Your Face; 3. Not for Sale; 4. A Genealogy of Popular Music and Authenticity; 5. Good Rockin' Tonite; 6. Musical Community, from In- to Excorporation; 7. Capitalism, from Meaning to Usage; 8. In the Mood; 9. Will There Be Music?; 10. Bourdieu, Bourdon't; 11. Everywhere, All the Time; Notes; About Jeffrey T. Nealon; Series List |
| Summary |
Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop's music in luxury cruise advertisements, the author 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 else. Through a consideration of the shift in dominant modes of power in the American twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from what Michel Foucault calls a dominant "disciplinary" mode of power to a "biopolitical" mode, the author argues that the modes of musical "resistance" need to be completely rethought and that a commitment to musical authenticity or meaning - saying "no" to the mainstream - is no longer primarily where we might look for music to function against the grain |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Political aspects -- United States
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Neoliberalism -- United States
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Biopolitics -- United States
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Biopolitics
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Neoliberalism
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Popular music -- Political aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496210951 |
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1496210956 |
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9781496210975 |
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1496210972 |
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