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An Affect of an Experience
This book examines the philosophy of experience by investigating writing about experience as a practice in fine art, like painting. It also explores ‘affect’ as a research methodology and uncovers the reasons why experience is more aligned with the notion of actuality than other modes of consciou...
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Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE
Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist. Includes comprehensive visual documentation of his performative practice drawn extensively from his archival resources, with essays from leading national and international...
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Agency
Winner of the 2021 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize Including almost 50 contributing artists and scholars, this collection of essays, conversations, provocations and archival images takes the twentieth anniversary of the founding of one of the sector's most committed champions, the Live Art Develop...
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Negotiating Spain and Catalonia
This book is a narrative study of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993-1996. The narrative analysis of the discourses of national identity is contained within two sections. The first d...
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Art, Technology, Consciousness
Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location. Its focus is both on and beyond the digital culture, seeking to assimilate new ideas emanatin...
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Well-Being and Creative Careers
There is a well-documented mental health crisis among media professionals worldwide. This book documents what is particular about well-being in creative careers in the media, offers an analysis of systemic issues throughout the media industries that explain why so many practitioners get sick on t...
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European Media Governance
A multitude of factors affect how the European media industry is governed, including commercialisation, concentration, convergence and globalisation. George Terzis’ collection, European Media Governance, is the first volume to concentrate on analysing and explaining how European countries are slo...
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Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity
Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between these ...
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Architectures of Illusion
The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify and implement new criteria? This profile of the work of the Cambridge University Moving Image St...
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The Last Empire
This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field...
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Critical Studies in Art and Design Education
This book reviews past practice and theory in critical studies and discusses various trends; some papers keenly advocate a re-conceptualisation of the whole subject area, while others describe aspects of current and past practice which exemplify the "symbiotic" relationship between practical stud...
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Being Human
This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel.... Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not appear to know much either. This book is a guide for everyone who feels understandably perp...
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Forget-Me-Not, Iran
Facing hardship, enduring pain, losing all – such things are a bitter pill to swallow for anyone. For those devoted to the life of the spirit, cruel misfortune – even violent opposition – are familiar stages of the journey of life. Walking a spiritual path in a material world is rarely an easy ex...
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Media Poetry
The first international anthology to document a radically new poetry which takes language beyond the confines of the printed page into a non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage. The work of the poets discussed in this book challenges even the innovations of experimental poetics...
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Becoming Designers
Design Research is an area that is both current and growing, but texts on the subjects are in short supply. This book intends to place Design Research in its rightful place at the heart of studio-based education and practice. It offers a valuable context within which to understand the educational...
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Arab Press
This monograph provides a much-needed history of the Arab print media as well as an in-depth study of translated Arab media sources, remedying a remarkable gap in Western intellectual culture. Setting the scene, the manuscript begins with a brief historical narrative of Arab newspapers from the 1...
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Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre
This new collection brings together the romance, love, and lust encompassing the musical genre. Established and emergent scholars wrestle with gender, sex, and sexuality across methodologies, periods, identities, and nations as they dig into a cultural site many have framed as one of the most cul...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation. It maps the full scope of contemporary media policy and industry activities while also assessing the impact of new technologies and radical changes in distribution and consumption on ...
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Distillation of Sound
Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world. It focuses on the analysis of some of the most famous full-length albums of dub music and how the engineers, producers, and musicians created a new sound that changed the way...
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Anarchitectural Experiments
Comprehensive exploration of architectural visualization through speculative design projects. Outlines how cinema and animation augment traditional design drawing practices to expand the possibilities for theoretical architectural projects. It provides a history of speculative designs and elabora...
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Lightwork
Collection of performance texts from the experimental theatre company Lightwork, along with short essays by key participants. Geared around collaborative creation, it covers an array of approaches including devised, multimedia and site-specific work, providing a rich resource for those making or ...
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Material Media-Making in the Digital Age
A journey through a variety of tools and technologies from vlogging to drone cinematography to considerations of time, editing and sound design, Material Media-Making in the Digital Age offers professionals, scholars and students alike the chance to re-think how they engage with new media technol...
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Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education
Explores consent as a principle to guide practices and policies in university level performing arts education. Describes structural power dynamics present in educational spaces and tools for defusing them. Adapts the protocols foundational to intimacy training to apply to classroom and rehearsal ...
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The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series
This is the first book-length study of the music of Nobuo Uematsu, and focuses on his Final Fantasy soundtracks, exploring the dynamic relationship between the music and the stories behind the beloved video game series. Contributors are music and game scholars, based in the USA and UK. Foreword b...
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L.A. Chic
Los Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself for the twenty-first century as a walkable, pedestrian friendly, ecologically healthy and global urban hotspot of fashion and style, while driving initiatives t...
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Dance, Disability and Law
This collection is the first book to focus on the intersection of dance, disability, and the law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, it considers the question of how we value, validate, and speak about diversity in performance practice, with a specific focus on the e...
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Design in the Age of Change
Change is the only constant. In recent times, the world experienced a global pandemic, social inequalities, climate change, racial injustices, riots and unrests and rapid advances of new technologies – all at once. Although many fear change, it is the job of designers to create and thrive in such...
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Quantum Art & Uncertainty
In order to draw parallels between art, science and culture, this publication will explore the ways that selected art works have contributed to a form of cultural pedagogy.
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Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones
Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won't die a fiery death....
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Becoming a Visually Reflective Practitioner
Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change a...
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Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia
This book offers rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, looking closely at the dynamics of stardom and celebrity endorsement and examining its marketing and media impact. Through interviews with celebrities and entertainment industry practitioners, the authors dis...
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Europe Faces Europe
This book examines Eastern European perspectives on European identity. The contributors map narratives of Europe rooted in Eastern Europe, examining their relationship to philosophy, journalism, social movements, literary texts, visual art and popular music. The essays explore how Europeanness is...
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Personal Style Blogs
From Style Rookie to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends. Personal Style Blogs ex...
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Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses
Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses provides a truly cross-national, comparative dialogue that is vital to the field of media industry studies today. It presents an overview of the film and television sectors in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdo...
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Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research
Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research brings together current scholarly debates about how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research. Drawing on work from media scholars and practitioners, this book is the first collection to examine how theory a...
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Food Democracy
Food Democracy brings together contributions from leading international scholars and activists, critical case studies of emancipatory food practices and reflections on possible models for responsive communication, design and art. The book includes recipes and essays that ask how to counter the ro...
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science
Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and art.
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 7
This chapter describes the European Union’s policy on the audiovisual domain. It argues that since the mid-1980s, the European Union (EU) has sought to initiate policies to harmonize as well as to protect, the media sector and to make it competitive both in the internal European market and in the...
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Leaping into Dance Literacy through the Language of Dance®
Dance-based dance literacy using a constructivist approach supports creativity and learning. Examples of applications of dance notation with dancers of all ages and the associated benefits are demonstrated using model activities supported by research outcomes, lesson plans, choreographic explorat...
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Artistic Research in the Future Academy
The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge and, yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for the future of the university. Synthesizing institutional history with aesthe...
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Nostalgia and Videogame Music
This collection of essays addresses the fascinating intersection between nostalgia and videogame music. From Nintendo to PlayStation, Zelda to Bioshock, and cult to classic games – this anthology takes readers on a musical journey into personal, historical and virtual pasts. 15 b/w illus.
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Lexicon for an Affective Archive
To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an Affective Archive is an international collection of these encounters, offering glimpses into the intimate relations inherent in finding, remembering ...
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Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets
Edited collection presenting an investigation of the entanglement of form and practice seen through the lens of the smallest multiple unit of collaboration: the pair. It focuses on a ten-year period in the work of Karen Christopher, alongside wider reflections on the duet as a concept in artistic...
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Orphan Black
This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction and biopolitics and community. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds and explore the digital innovations and techni...
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Planet Cosplay
Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption.
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 11
This chapter is concerned with conceptualizations of ‘diversity’ in Public Service Media (PSM) policies, and addresses the following questions: (1) How do PSM frame diversity as a part of their public service mission? By which parameters do they define identities and diversity (e.g. socio-demogra...
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Saudade in Brazilian Cinema
The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen.
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The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia
This book offers insights into the news media’s role in the development of policy in Australia, and explores the complex and interactive relationship between news media and Australian Indigenous affairs. McCallum and Waller examine how Indigenous people are excluded from policy and media discussi...
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The Hollywood War Film
Considering selected films representing three periods in history - World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and major conflicts in the Middle East, The Hollywood War Film maps cinematic discourses within Hollywood's representations of war and conflict. This results in an understanding of the Hollywo...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 8
This chapter sets out and explains how the Council of Europe seeks to protect and promote freedom of expression and the media, through the development and application of legal and policy instruments. The European Court of Human Rights has held that Member States of the Council of Europe have an o...
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Australian Film Theory and Criticism
The third part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Volume 3: Documents concludes the project by gathering together the documents that were produced during the rise of film studies in Australian academia from 1975–85. Through these source...
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Architecture, Film, and the In-between
Architecture, Film, and the In-Between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt brings together some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary architectural discourses with an investigation of the filmic imagination of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural ...
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Transformations
Transformations explores the interactions between people and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways people shape their cities. This collection also investigates the politics and democratization of space through an examination of art, education,...
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Picturing the Cosmos
Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination. In the 1950s and ’60s, as part of the space race with the United States, the solar system was the blank page upon which the Soviet Union etched a narrative of conquest and exploration. In Picturing the Cosmos, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of ...
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World-Wide-Walks
This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate.
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Canadian Critical Luxury Studies
The first study of Canada’s historical, economic and cultural relationship to luxury. From the fur trade to Indigenous resurgence, Eaton’s Made-in-Canada campaign to Toronto Fashion Week, Vancouver public artworks to Montréal’s fashiontech sector, this collection explains what makes Canadian luxu...
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Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries
Deeply influenced by studies of female iconology, the medieval, the afterlife and hybrid bodies, Faith Wilding’s art is instantly recognizable and distinctive in style. In keeping with Wilding’s own artworks, the book is a bricollage: memoirs and watercolours sit alongside critical essays and fam...
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What's Next?
By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture...
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Heavy Metal Armour: A Visual Study of Battle Jackets
Customized denim battle jackets are worn by heavy metal fans to show their devotion to the music and subcultures of metal. Unique study outlines the significance of battle jackets in metal scenes and makes connections to wider historic and contemporary culture. Original paintings of jackets and p...
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The Sensible Stage
This book examines how elements from theatre and cinema are integrated into art, in order to question the boundaries and mediations between the body and the image. Opening with a discussion between Alain Badiou and Elie During, this new edition offers a mixture of theoretical, creative and discur...
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Off Book
Collection of essays exploring ways that theatrical devising supports and defies higher education’s institutional goals. Considering power, timelines, colonial structures, inclusion and exclusion, research, community engagement, and student learning outcomes, the authors examine devising in Canad...
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Insights in Applied Theatre
This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000–11, predecessor of Intellect’s Applied Theatre Research journal, with significant and substantial new material. First and foremost a critical reader for today’s applie...
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Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education
Edited collection including contributions from scholars and popular music educators in response to the question “what are the place and purpose of popular music education?” The book aims to broaden and diversify the conversation and community around popular music education globally. 7 b&w illus.
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Crafting Luxury
A fresh approach to contemporary views of luxury focusing on extensive academic research and industry insights, pushing the boundaries by using luxury as a catalyst for innovative research in a variety of domains spanning design, art, craftsmanship, technology, retail, architecture and cultural a...
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Playwriting in Schools
John Newman invites teachers to take their students on a playwriting voyage in Playwriting in Schools. The book examines how students who learn to write plays and work with a professional playwright in residence empower themselves and gives instructors tools for teaching the process of playwritin...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 6
This chapter compares public service media (PSM) institutions and their legal and policy context in ten European countries (Ireland, Austria, Wallonia, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switserland France and United Kingdom) on 53 indicators to compare remit, organisation and service prov...
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The Drama Therapy Decision Tree, Second Edition
Provides a model for therapeutic decision-making, uniting drama therapy interventions with diagnostic information, individual and group processes, psychological distance, the drama therapy pie, and global outcomes in a series of questions for early career drama therapists and other healing profes...
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The Music of Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim's music made a lasting impression worldwide, ...
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Performing Institutions
Rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research. Case studies and critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK, Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia challenge the concept of the inst...
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Obsessions of a Showwoman
The book foregrounds the important lineage of incredible women working across performance, live art and cabaret and asks how the term 'showwoman' can transgress the figure of the showman as a provider of the spectacular. It encourages the showgirl to finally graduate into adulthood. 60 illus. Re...
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Anne Bean
Anne Bean: Self Etc. is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. Part of the Intellect Live series, co-published with the Live Art Development Agency, this book includes extensive visual d...
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Gender, Race and Religion in Video Game Music
Analyses the representation of gender, race and religion in video game music and explores three master categories of identity across 25 case studies, demonstrating the relevance of semiotic interpretation in video games to sociocultural issues and with Japanese history and culture into dialogue w...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 4
The topic of media governance shows a growing interest among scholars in the field of media studies and communication policy. The concept has been among the most influential and widespread in media and communications policy in recent years. Media governance can be regarded as a key concept – from...
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Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art
An embracive, multi-perspective tour through and beyond Nordic artistic experiments, conceptual reconfigurations and new modes of artistic agency. Offering an in-depth exploration of art’s contingent evolution with technology and digital culture, this book goes far beyond familiar depictions of ...
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House of Cards
Exploration of the idea that House of Cards sets an alternate political world, where the leader is a ferocious animal, a political field overtaken by monsters who remain true to their fundamental nature or try to master their bloodthirsty instincts. But can we really think that the elected men an...
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Data Dating
Organized around ten chapters and works of new media art, the collection offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance – and other emotional relations – as well as provides an insight into the codification, execution, deployment and evolution of the patterns of togetherness in th...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 3
This chapter elaborates on the wave of digital change for legacy media organisations, and discusses the challenges the dominant media business logic faces from digital intermediaries. The impact of digital technology in media and communications industries, not only in Europe but all over the worl...
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Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art
Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art presents a major study of time as a key aesthetic dimension of recent art practices. This book explores different aspects of time across a broad range of artistic media and draws on recent movements in philosophy, science and technology to show how ar...
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A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema
Marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968), A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closely analyses the film, looking to the context and the socio-political landscape of 1960s Argentina, as...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 9
The claim that the Internet is a free, open and democratic space for global communication is increasingly being challenged and threatened by various developments and practices, such as censorship – by State authorities and private actors, surveillance and commercialization. This chapter provides ...
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Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Chapter 1
In the last several decades, the European media landscape has transformed in ways that were unpredictable. From the viewpoint of ordinary media users, these changes have offered increasing choices: new gadgets, services and channels are continuously entering the market. Behind this transformation...
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The Art of Defiance
The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build their social capital and gain a voice within an...
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By Accident or Design
In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and ...
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Fortunes of War
An extended edit of Eric Lesdema’s photographic series of the same name, with 83 colour photographs and essays from leading academics which analyse how his work provides an alternative approach to documentary photography. Twenty-first-century interpretations and applications of photography are qu...
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The Making of an Artist
What drives an artist to create? And are there common traits that successful artists possess? In The Making of an Artist, Kristin G. Congdon draws on her years of studying and teaching art at all levels – from universities to correctional settings – to identify three traits that are regularly fou...
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Transglobal Fashion Narratives
Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society – who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog and artist ...
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The Hour of All Things and Other Plays
This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring essays by practitioners such as Zac Kline, this book refuses to pretend that the com...
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The Films of Aleksandr Rou
In a directorial career spanning from 1938 to 1972, Aleksandr Rou transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and filmmaking. Featuring detailed analyses of Rou’s films and their social and industrial contexts, this book introduces the exhilarating oeuvre of one of the world’s great masters of fa...
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The Social Object
A book about the biography of projects and objects. Where projects serve as book ends to a detailed account of objects with the homes of the not so rich. By silencing the designer, the book allows accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that serve as evidence of a hidden maelstrom of...
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Popular Music Ethnographies
This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.
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Shock Factory
This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement. 636 halftones Read an interview with Nicolas Ballet Shock Fa...
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One Hundred Years of Futurism
More than one hundred years after Futurism exploded onto the European stage with its unique brand of art and literature, there is a need to reassess the movement, from its Italian roots to its international ramifications. The contributors to this collection examine both the original context and t...
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Across the Art/Life Divide
Martin Patrick explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres. Examining the impact of various art movements on notions of performance, authorship, and identity, Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most d...
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The Importance of Elsewhere
This book is a collection of essays rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty, key drivers of ou...
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Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary
There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalysed: the visual. Ambitious and original, Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary corrects that oversight, making a powerful argument for science fiction as ...
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Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
An exploration of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey that combines ‘new’ empirical approaches with ‘old’ formalist approaches. This provides a broader understanding of how Kubrick’s methods as a director and auteur were developed to produce a unique aesthetic creation that is still years ahe...
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Inside the TV Newsroom
In an era where the way people get news is ever-changing, how do broadcast journalists work? How do changes to the field affect journalists at traditional public broadcasters? And what similarities are there between license-funded news programmes – like those on the BBC – and commercial news? Thi...
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Using Media for Social Innovation
Presenting a number of case studies including campaigns dealing with young people, Indigenous peoples, human rights and environmental issues, this work looks at the guiding principles, assumptions, goals, practices and outcomes of experiments involving social innovation media.
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Dancing Bahia
Dancing Bahia is an edited collection that draws together the work of leading scholars, artists and dance activists from Brazil, Canada and the United States to examine the particular ways in which dance has responded to sociopolitical notions of race and community, resisting stereotypes, and red...
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The Capitalist Imaginaries of Popular Music
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 more often participates in the social reproduction of the biggest power there is: neoliberal capitalism. ...
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