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Radiohead: The Guitar Weilding, Dancing, Singing Commodity, Selena Michelle Lawson
Radiohead: The Guitar Weilding, Dancing, Singing Commodity, Selena Michelle Lawson
Communication Theses
In 2007, Radiohead released a downloadable album, In Rainbows, allowing consumers to pay what they thought the album was worth. The band responded to a moment of change in the music industry. Since then, other bands, like Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay, have made similar moves. Radiohead's capability to release an album and let the fans decide its worth relied on the image they built, which foregrounded their commodification. The historic move redefined the boundaries between art and commodity, a well know tension in popular music studies. The thesis focuses on popular music as communication in the changing industry. Using …