Take This Hammer

Take This Hammer
Author :
Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 268
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781913380151
ISBN-13 : 1913380157
Rating : 4/5 (157 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Take This Hammer by : Paul Rekret

Download or read book Take This Hammer written by Paul Rekret and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life. The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also underscored a wider separation of labor from leisure and of the workplace from the domestic sphere. These were changes characteristic of an industrial society where pleasure was to be sought outside of work, but these categories have grown increasingly porous today. As the working day extends into the home or becomes indistinguishable from leisure time, so the role and meaning of music in everyday life changes too. In arguing that the experience of popular music is partly conditioned by its segregation from work and its restriction to the time and space of leisure—the evening, the weekend, the dancehall—Take This Hammer shows how changes to work as it grows increasingly precarious, part-time, and temporary in recent decades, are related to transformations in popular music. Connecting contemporary changes in work and the economy to tendencies in popular music, Take This Hammer shows how song-form has both reflected developments in contemporary capitalism while also intimating a horizon beyond it. From online streaming and the extension of the working day to gentrification, unemployment and the emergence of trap rap, from ecological crisis and field recording to automation and trends in dance music, by exploring the intersections of work and song in the current era, not only do we gain a new understanding of contemporary musical culture, we also see how music might gesture towards a horizon beyond the alienating experience of work in capitalism itself.


Take This Hammer Related Books

Take This Hammer
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Paul Rekret
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-27 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life. The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century no
Every Tool's a Hammer
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Adam Savage
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-27 - Publisher: Atria Books

GET EBOOK

In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters—shares his
Songs of Work and Protest
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Edith Fowke
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

GET EBOOK

Provides lyrics, music, and chord notation for work and protest songs and discusses each tune's significance in the labor movement
Ragtime, Blues & Jazz for Banjo
Language: en
Pages: 57
Authors: Fred Sokolow
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-07 - Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

GET EBOOK

If you are a banjo player whose enjoyment of music isn't limited to bluegrass and country, you'll find this collection of tunes fun and sometimes challenging. C
Black soul, white soul
Language: en
Pages: 469
Authors: Patrizia Barrera
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-30 - Publisher: Tektime

GET EBOOK

A journey into the ancient world of Blues: how it was born, its origins, its path in the world. And then many stories and biographies about its protagonists, bl