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One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song book cover

1st Edition

One-Track Mind Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song

Edited By Asif Siddiqi Copyright 2023
308 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural, aesthetic, and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the... Read more

One-Track Mind: An Introduction

Asif Siddiqi　

  1. Le Grand Kallé and African Jazz—"Indépendance Cha Cha" (1960)

    2. Simon Zagorski-Thomas

  2. Gerald Wilson—"Viva Tirado" (1962)

    3. Oliver Wang

  3. Moby Grape— "Omaha" (1967)

    4. Susan Schmidt Horning

  4. Led Zeppelin—"Immigrant Song" (1970)

    5. Esther Liberman Cuenca

  5. David Bowie—"Rebel Rebel" (1974)

    6. Glenn Hendler

  6. Donna Summer—"I Feel Love" (1977)

    7. Simon Reynolds

  7. X-Ray Spex—"Oh Bondage Up Yours!" (1977)

    8. Helen Reddington

  8. Prince—"When You Were Mine" (1980)

    9. Scott Poulson-Bryant

  9. Neil Young—"Transformer Man" (1982)

    10. George Plasketes

  10. The Replacements—"Unsatisfied" (1984)

    11. Gina Arnold

  11. NWA—"F- Tha Police (1988)

    12. Austin McCoy

  12. Salt-N-Pepa—"Shoop" (1993)

    13. Amy Coddington

  13. Hanson—"MmmBop" (1997)

    14. Louie Dean Valencia

  14. Elton John—"Candle in the Wind 1997" (1997)

    15. Christine Caccipuoti

  15. LCD Soundsystem—"All My Friends" (2007)

    16. Gabrielle Cornish

  16. MIA—"Paper Planes" (2007)

         Asif Siddiqi

Biography

Asif Siddiqi is Professor of History at Fordham University in New York and specializes in the history of technology, Soviet history, and global histories of science. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, MIT, Caltech, and the Smithsonian Institution. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016 and was a visiting scholar at Princeton University’s Davis Center for Historical Studies in 2021–22.

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