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I just finished Paul Rekret's new book and it is an extraordinary study of some key developments in popular music, in relation to key transformations of 21st century capitalism.
I'd even say this book represents a necessary update of cultural studies as a field, making it more relevant than it has been for like forty years!
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380168/take-this-hammer/

"In arguing that the experience of popular music is partly conditioned by its segregation from work and its restriction to the time and space of leisure—the evening, the weekend, the dancehall—Take This Hammer shows how changes to work as it grows increasingly precarious, part-time, and temporary in recent decades, are related to transformations in popular music."