Jeffrey T. Nealon

I'm Not Like Everybody Else (eBook, PDF)

Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop's music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central organizing use for the values of twentieth-century popular music: being authentic, being your own person, and being free. In short, not being like everybody else. Through a consideration of the shift in dominant modes of power in the American twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from what Michel Foucault calls a dominant "disciplinary" mode of power to a "biopolitical" mode, Nealon argues that the modes of musical "resistance" need to be completely rethought and that a commitment to musical authenticity or meaning-saying "no" to the mainstream-is no longer primarily where we might look for music to function against the grain. Rather, it is in the technological revolutions that allow biopolitical subjects to deploy music within an everyday set of practices (MP3 listening on smartphones and iPods, streaming and downloading on the internet, the background music that plays nearly everywhere) that one might find a kind of ambient or ubiquitous answer to the "attention capitalism" that has come to organize neoliberalism in the American present. In short, Nealon stages the final confrontation between "keepin' it real" and "sellin' out."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496210975
• Artikelnr.: 55972691

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of several books, including Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984 and Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Provocations
Introduction
1. Biopower Blues
2. Steal Your Face
3. Not for Sale
4. A Genealogy of Popular Music and Authenticity; or, You Can Fake the Funk
5. Good Rockin’ Tonite
6. Musical Community, from In- to Excorporation
7. Capitalism, from Meaning to Usage
8. In the Mood
9. Will There Be Music
10. Bourdieu, Bourdon’t
11. Everywhere, All the Time
Notes