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06 février 2015

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9780801454813

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English

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, and sociology of work, combining theoretical development, methodological innovation, and a vitality that brings the musical culture of the factory workers to life. Music, Korczynski argues, allows workers both to fulfill their social roles in a regimented industrial environment and to express a sense of resistance to this social order. The author highlights the extensive forms of informal collective resistance within this factory, and argues that the musically informed culture played a key role in sustaining these collective acts of resistance. As well as providing a rich picture of the musical culture and associated forms of resistance in the factory, Korczynski also puts forward new theoretical concepts that have currency in other workplaces and in other rationalized spheres of society.

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Cornell University Press

Date de parution

06 février 2015

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780801454813

Langue

English

Songs of the Factory

SongsoftheFactory

PopMusic,Culture,andResistance

MarekKorczynski

ILR Press animprintofCornellUniversityPressIthacaandLondon

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2014 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2014 Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Korczynski, Marek, author. Songs of the factory : pop music, culture, and resistance / Marek Korczynski. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801451546 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 9780801479977 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Music in the workplace—England—Midlands. 2. Popular music—Social aspects—England—Midlands. 3. Working class— England—Midlands—Social conditions. 4. Industrial sociology— England—Midlands. I. Title. ML3922.K67 2014 781.5'9309424—dc23 2014020725

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With love to Ursula

Acknowledgments

Contents

1.ReachOutI’llBeThere:Pop Music, Work, and Society

2.Stayin’AliveatMcTells

3.IGotAllMySisterswithMe:MusicandCommunity

4.Music,Machines,andClocks:SongsandtheSenses of Alienation

5.YouCanTellbytheWayIUseMyWalk:MusicasAidto Work and Critique of Taylorism

6.PopSongsandtheHiddenInjuries(andJoys)ofClass

7.CollectiveResistanceontheShopFloor

8.DottedLinesontheShopFloor:CulturalConnectionswith Collective Resistance

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9.Conclusion:PopMusic,Culture,andResistance

Appendix:AnEthnographyofWorkingandofMusicking

ReferencesIndex

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Acknowledgments

Inthewritingofthisbook,Ihavebeeninspiredbywonderfulbookswritten by Betty Messenger (Picking Up the Linen Threads), Craig Wer ner (A Change Is Gonna Come), Joel Dinerstein (Swinging the Machine), Thomas Turino (Music as Social Life(ttesamcoSa),JndDomination and the Arts of Resistance). This book leans on, and develops from, journal articles I published based on my ethnographic study at McTells. Iamindebtedtotheinsight,efﬁciency,andenthusiasmoftheedito rial director Frances Benson of ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell Univer sity Press. It has been a pleasure to work with her, and it is a true honor for this to become my second book with ILR. Thanks to the following colleagues for offering comments on drafts of either papers or chapters: Michael Pickering, Emma Robertson, Donald Hislop, Maurizio Atzeni, Randy Hodson, Timothy Dowd, Joel Dinerstein, Vic Gammon, Carol Wolkowitz, Paul Edwards, Davide Pero, Robert Cluley, Seamus Allison, and James Mansell. Also thanks to Craig Werner for generously sharing

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