Sound Strategies

A vital new theory of popular music considered as political strategy, from Industrial to Britpop. Sound Strategies 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. Taking the 1990s as a point of rupture, a time when "a culture of margins coll