Songs of the Factory
Marek Korczynski · 2014
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"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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780801451546
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