Music and Capitalism
A History of the Present
- Contents
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List of Tables
List of Audio and Video Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Capitalism, Music, and Social Theory
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
Social Class, Markets, and Cultural Consumption
2 Neoliberal Capitalism and the Cultural Industries
Ideologies of Neoliberal Capitalism
The Cultural Industries as Industries
Search
Sociality
3 Globalization
Globalization, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the International Music Industry
The Rise of “World Music”
Positions and Forms of Capital in the World Music Field
Gender
Oremi (1998)
Later Recordings
4 Digitalization
New Sound Technologies: DIY Everything?
Remixing, Co- Creating
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
Other Unpublished Materials
Filmography
Books and Articles
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Music: Ethnomusicology | General Music
Philosophy: Aesthetics
Sociology: Theory and Sociology of Knowledge
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