Pop Music and Hip Ennui - A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Pop Music and Hip Ennui
1. Kodwo Eshun: Sonic Fiction at Century's End
2. Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism after the Crash
3. Sounds Like the Future Will Never Arrive
Part 2 A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism
Vignette: Jessie J at the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics
4. Attention
Vignette: Busking on the London Underground
5. Complicity
Vignette: On “Bored in the USA” on Letterman on YouTube (Now Removed)
6. Catharsis
Vignette: The Stones
7. Home
Vignette: One of Two: Carly Simon’s New Boyfriend
8. Conjunction
Vignette: Two of Two: On Xiu Xiu and Mixing
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Macon Holt completed his PhD at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, in 2017. He is a contributing editor at the music magazine Passive/Aggressive, and his writing has appeared in Atlas Magasin, Blacklisted Copenhagen, The Ark Review, and Full Stop. He has taught at Lund University, Sweden, The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Denmark, and the Leeds College of Music, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Macon Holt
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2021
• EAN: 9781501383212
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8321-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology