Songs of the Factory
Subtitle: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801451546
Subjects: Popular music; Working class, great britain; Industrial sociology
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"--