A dialogue on pop music’s prefiguration of the Occupy protests
By Max Fox and Malcolm Harris
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The only feeling left for the music industry to sell back to us is crisis, and it makes for really great dance music.
You see this play out in the tastes on the radical left: The last explicitly anarchist party I went to promised “plenty of Ke$ha” on the Facebook invite without a bit of irony. Of course there’s also a kind of aphasia though, an inability for these songs to say what they’re about. Instead we have evocations of desires, specifically the bringing about of chaos, the control necessary to destroy control, running through the street, etc.
