Songs of the factory : pop music, culture, and resistance / Marek Korczynski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korczynski, Marek, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music in the workplace--England--Midlands.

Music in the workplace.

Popular music--Social aspects--England--Midlands.

Popular music.

Working class--England--Midlands--Social conditions.

Working class.

Industrial sociology--England--Midlands.

Industrial sociology.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Working class--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

England--Midlands.

Physical Description:

x, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, Songs of the Factory draws on socio-musicology, cultural studies, and sociology of work, combining theoretical development, methodological innovation, and a vitality that brings the musical culture of the factory workers to life"-- Publisher's Web site.

Contents:

Reach out, I'll be there : pop music, work and society

Stayin' alive at McTells

I've got my sisters and me : music and community

Music, machines, and clocks : songs and the senses of alienation

You can tell by the way I use my walk : music as aid to work and cultural critique of Taylorism

Pop songs and the hidden injuries (and joys) of class

Collective resistance on the shopfloor

Dotted lines on the shopfloor : cultural connections with collective resistance

Conclusion : pop music, culture, and resistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801479975

9780801451546

080145154X

9780801479977

OCLC:

879583342

Publisher Number:

99961285570