Publication

2014 - Cornell University Press

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780801479977
  • ISBN-100801479975
  • Better World Books9780801479977
  • Better World BooksW8-AEF-265
  • Open LibraryOL28543534M

Classifications

  • LCCML3922.K67 2014

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Songs of the FactoryCornell University Press2014

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