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The Political Economy Of Cultural Production: Essays On Music And Class, Ian J. Seda Irizarry
The Political Economy Of Cultural Production: Essays On Music And Class, Ian J. Seda Irizarry
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As an activity that produces wealth, musical production and its effects have largely been neglected by the economics profession. This dissertation seeks contribute to a small but growing literature on the subject by analyzing musical production through a particular class analytical lens of political economy.
A first problem that has encountered many within political economy, specifically within its radical variant of Marxism, is how to understand music in relation to the social totality. In the first essay of this work I provide a critical review of the literature that approaches music through the "base-superstructure metaphor", a tool of analysis …