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Songs of the Factory : Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801454813
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Songs of the FactoryDDC classification:
  • 781.5/9309424
LOC classification:
  • ML3922
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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