Music and Capitalism
A History of the Present
240 pages
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11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
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6 x 9
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Audio and Video Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Capitalism, Music, and Social Theory
List of Tables
List of Audio and Video Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Capitalism, Music, and Social Theory
Music and Capitalism
Western Neoliberal Capitalism as a Cultural System
What Follows
Western Neoliberal Capitalism as a Cultural System
What Follows
1 A Brief History of Music and Capitalism before the Rise of Neoliberalism
Production of Musical Commodities
Capitalism and Musical Production
Artisans, Artists, Geniuses
Social Class, Markets, and Cultural Consumption
Social Class, Markets, and Cultural Consumption
Youth
Conclusions
2 Neoliberal Capitalism and the Cultural Industries
Ideologies of Neoliberal Capitalism
The Cultural Industries as Industries
2 Neoliberal Capitalism and the Cultural Industries
Ideologies of Neoliberal Capitalism
The Cultural Industries as Industries
Brands and Branding
The Conquest of Cool— and the Culture
New Social Classes: The New Petite Bourgeoisie
Increasing Commodification
Consumption and/as Identity- Making
Plenitude
Music Supervisors
Search
Sociality
Search
Sociality
Art and Commerce
Advertising as Harbinger of the Present
3 Globalization
Globalization, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the International Music Industry
The Rise of “World Music”
Shifting Authenticities
Connoisseurs, Collaborators, Curators
Collaboration without Collaborators
Musicians in the Field of World Music in Neoliberal Capitalism
Case Study: Angélique Kidjo
Kidjo and “World Music”
Positions and Forms of Capital in the World Music Field
Gender
Oremi (1998)
Later Recordings
Positions and Forms of Capital in the World Music Field
Gender
Oremi (1998)
Later Recordings
Ownership
4 Digitalization
New Sound Technologies: DIY Everything?
Remixing, Co- Creating
4 Digitalization
New Sound Technologies: DIY Everything?
Remixing, Co- Creating
New Forms of Labor?
The Changing Nature of Work in the Commercial Music Industry
Longer, Harder
Digitized Music as a New Form of Music Objectified
Tactility
Ambivalences and Critiques
5 Singing in the Shadows of Neoliberal Capitalism
Motivated by Music
Burger Records: “Keeping the Teenage Spirit Alive”
6 Conclusions: Capitalism Is People, Too
Value in the Informal Logic of Actual Life
Notes
References
5 Singing in the Shadows of Neoliberal Capitalism
Motivated by Music
Burger Records: “Keeping the Teenage Spirit Alive”
6 Conclusions: Capitalism Is People, Too
Value in the Informal Logic of Actual Life
Notes
References
Unpublished Materials
Interviews
Other Unpublished Materials
Other Unpublished Materials
Discography
Filmography
Books and Articles
Filmography
Books and Articles
Index
Review Quotes
Ethnomusicology Forum
“Using a historically informed approach grounded in Marx, Weber and Bourdieu, Taylor’s book is wide ranging but focused, nuanced and clearly articulated.”
Choice
“This book addresses a fundamental question: how have changes in capitalism impacted the production and consumption of music? In the first chapter, Taylor (UCLA) offers a brief history of music and capitalism, and in the chapters that follow, he looks at neoliberalism and the cultural industries, globalization, digitalization, and neoliberal capitalism. . . . In contrast to many social scientists who critique present-day society, Taylor is mildly optimistic: he concludes that humans have the potential for better lives. Of interest to those in the culture industries. . . . Recommended.”
PopMatters
“Taylor convincingly argues we can’t properly look at music in a vacuum that doesn’t consider economics, and provides a framework for understanding the big pictures and unseen hands driving the industry and the people who work within it.”
The Wire
“First-hand accounts from Taylor’s interviews tie together the wide-ranging topics throughout, revealing how each individual or organization negotiates their own position in the economy and builds their own identity in the cultural value system of the music business. . . . Music And Capitalism builds on the argument put forward by Jacques Attali in Noise: The Political Economy Of Music that capitalism both shapes and is shaped by culture. This approach necessarily invokes systems of value other than the monetary—brand value, edginess, tastemaking, and the construction of identity through conspicuous consumption are discussed. Yet in Taylor’s view of capitalism as a cultural force, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between aesthetic judgments and marketing decisions.”
Martin Stokes, author of Republic of Love
“Taylor’s contribution is to see the questions surrounding music and capitalism through the lens of traditions of social theory that have been crowded out by Adorno. His case studies, rich in the voices of actors and participants as well as in theoretical debate, throw us into the diverse histories and cultures of the musical marketplace. This is a bold and ambitious book, by an author whose reading in these fields is unrivaled and who has a knack for getting quickly to the point. Required reading across all of the musicological disciplines.”
Keith Hart, author of Money in an Unequal World
“Music and money have a strong affinity. Taylor explores their synthesis as cultural commodities in the era of neoliberal capitalism. This pathbreaking book is an original work of theory built on encyclopedic knowledge of commercial music today.”
Jocelyne Guilbault, author of Governing Sound
“Comprehensively researched and presented with numerous historical and ethnographic examples, Music and Capitalism is a major landmark in music studies and research on capitalism. Critical, insightful, and erudite, Taylor addresses the production and consumption of music in a work that deeply reveals the social organization of capitalism and its profound impact on music.”
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