Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis

What is the relationship between music and radical social change? This book explores their confounding and exciting interrelations in original and engaging ways.

Beginning with how capitalism and empire have progressively twisted and atomized our aurally aesthetic experiences over the past century, Alexander Billet examines how social struggles and mass protests challenge the isolation and commodification of music, a challenge which can, in turn, suggest visions of a life lived collectively ...