Songs of the Factory : Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
Songs of the Factory -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Reach Out I'll Be There: Pop Music, Work, and Society -- 2. Stayin' Alive at McTells -- 3. I Got All My Sisters with Me: Music and Community -- 4. Music, Machines, and Clocks: Songs and the Senses of Alienation -- 5. You Can Tell by the Way I Use My Walk: Music as Aid to Work and Critique of Taylorism -- 6. Pop Songs and the Hidden Injuries (and Joys) of Class -- 7. Collective Resistance on the Shop Floor -- 8. Dotted Lines on the Shop Floor: Cultural Connections with Collective Resistance -- 9. Conclusion: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance -- Appendix: An Ethnography of Working and of Musicking -- References -- Index.
Marek Korczynski reports on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory to show how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio.
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Music in the workplace -- England -- Midlands. Popular music -- Social aspects -- England -- Midlands. Working class -- England -- Midlands -- Social conditions. Industrial sociology -- England -- Midlands.