The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped
into being by historical forces-cultural, aesthetic, and
technical-the song provides both performer and audience with a
world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated
experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of
the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic
tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged
chronologically in order of release of the tracks, and spanning
nearly five decades, these essays zigzag across the cultural
landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are
detours through psychedelic rock, Afro-pop, Latin pop, glam rock,
heavy metal, punk, postpunk, adult contemporary rock, techno,
hip-hop, and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of
individual songs, these essays all expand far beyond the track
itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of
transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively, they show
the undiminished power of the individual pop song, both as
distillations of important flashpoints and, in their afterlives, as
ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for
succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good, capital,
help us frame these stories, a fact that should surprise no one
given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism
established in the twentieth century. At the root, readers will
find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists, colorful
protagonists, and fitting denouements.
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