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From rock & roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Musi
By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid
In this episode, Dr. Ismail Patel talks with Prof. Hatem Bazian about structural Islamophobia, globa
Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Sta
Today I’m speaking with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about the new, edited volume, Did It Happen Here? P
Imagining After Capitalism (Triarchy Press, 2025) is the culmination of a decade-long exploration of
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital (Duke University Press, 2024) provides a much-needed study of th
What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself ag
For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice a
The phrase "racial capitalism" was used by Cedric Robinson to describe an economy of wealth accumula
To meet the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to stave off the worst impacts of climate cha
How does the music industry actually work? In Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking
What happened to culture in 2020? In Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid (R
The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism t
In Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity (Cornell UP, 2024), M
In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025),
Even though this is not a political show, today we will be talking about the ways in which mechanism
How Government Built America (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by hi
Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits (Routledge, 2024) e
