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Songs of the Factory

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Songs of the Factory

By Marek Korczynski

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About the book

In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski 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, an...Show more

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9780801479977

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2014

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Songs of the Factory

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