{"product_id":"9781917319010","title":"Sound Strategies","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vital new theory of popular music considered as political strategy, from Industrial to Britpop.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSound Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e reframes popular music as a counter-ideological method. Reconsidering bands as a form of conceptual art project, the book contends that what we can learn from them goes beyond music production. Rather than exploring explicitly political music, it asks instead how cultural artefacts might perform politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking the 1990s as a point of rupture, a time when \"a culture of margins collapsed around a center,\" it considers how alternative music lost its oppositional status, becoming submerged in a new pluralism. Mining the varied histories of industrial music, minimal synth, indie, Britpop, and electroclash, and relecting on the work of Throbbing Gristle, Chicks On Speed, Stereolab, Mashina, Laibach, and the Manic Street Preachers amongst others, \u003ci\u003eSound Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e considers new ways of listening to, thinking about, and making music as an artistic and political strategy.","brand":"Pil and Galia Kollectiv","offers":[{"title":"MIT Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) | 2027-01-01","offer_id":46917421269247,"sku":"9781917319010","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2d65abbb-f0cd-4b1f-a04c-16084073d52e.jpg?v=1749047641","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781917319010","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}